Rongelap, Marshall Islands, 60 years since Bikini fallout

RONGELAP, Marshall Islands - A church stands against the sunrise glow in March 2014 in Rongelap, an atoll of the Marshall Islands that was severely affected by nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll.

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