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Illustration - Maldives

ARCHIPEL DES MALDIVES. ATOLL DE MALE SUD. SALLE DE BAIN D'UNE SUITE DU TAJ EXOTICA HOTEL Photo by Stephane Frances/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Maldives

ARCHIPEL DES MALDIVES. ATOLL DE LHAVIYANI. A LA DECOUVERTE DES POISSONS (SNORKLING) DU LAGON DE L'HOTEL DE LUXE KANUHURA Photo by Stephane Frances/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - Photo shows the first World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1955, the 10th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city. The conference gained momentum after Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 was irradiated by fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

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World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - Photo shows the first World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 1955, the 10th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. The conference gained momentum after Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 was irradiated by fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

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70th anniv. of Bikini Atoll H-bomb test

MAJURO, Marshall Islands, March 1 Kyodo - Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine speaks at a ceremony in the capital Majuro on March 1, 2024, marking the 70th anniversary of a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll. (Kyodo)

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70th anniv. of Bikini Atoll H-bomb test

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine speaks at a ceremony in the capital Majuro on March 1, 2024, marking the 70th anniversary of a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll.

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Japanese scientist letter displayed at atomic museum in Nevada

LAS VEGAS, United States - Photo shows parts of a letter by Japanese biophysicist Yasushi Nishiwaki dated March 17, 1954, with his signature, which has been on display at the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. The late scientist wrote to the chief of the then U.S. Atomic Energy Commission asking for information on how to help Japanese fishermen exposed to high-level radiation due to a U.S. nuclear test at Bikini Atoll on March 1.

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Data on U.S. H-bomb test show fishermen's radiation levels

TOKYO, Japan - Documents related to the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, released by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on Sept. 19, 2014, include the levels of radiation exposure suffered by crew members of fishing boats operating near the atoll.

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Japan releases documents related to Bikini H-bomb test

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Yamashita, executive director of the Kochi Prefecture Pacific Ocean Nuclear Test Suffering Support Center, speaks about the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2014, after receiving related documents released by the Japanese government at the request of the group.

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Professor emeritus speaks about 1954 nuclear fallout

TOKYO, Japan - Nagao Ikeda, professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba who analyzed radioactive fallout from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in Bikini Atoll, speaks at a public lecture in Tokyo on April 20, 2014.

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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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Rongelap, Marshall Islands, 60 years since Bikini fallout

RONGELAP, Marshall Islands - A dilapidated basketball goal is pictured 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. In the back are homes built under a resettlement plan for residents who have evacuated from Bikini.

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Rongelap, Marshall Islands, 60 years since Bikini fallout

RONGELAP, Marshall Islands - A whole body counter to check internal exposure to radioactive substances, set up by the United States on the Marshall Islands atoll of Rongelap, is pictured in March 2014. Rongelap was severely affected by nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll.

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Rongelap, Marshall Islands, 60 years since Bikini fallout

RONGELAP, Marshall Islands - Members of a family of an unidentified worker on the Marshall Islands atoll of Rongelap are pictured in March 2014. Rongelap was severely affected by nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll.

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Rongelap, Marshall Islands, 60 years since Bikini fallout

RONGELAP, Marshall Islands - Homes built under a resettlement plan for residents who have evacuated from the Marshall Islands atoll of Rongelap are pictured in March 2014. Rongelap was severely affected by the nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll. No residents have yet returned.

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Bikini nuclear test 60th anniversary

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Rose Gottemoeller (far L), acting U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, delivers a speech during a memorial program in Majuro, the capital of Marshall Islands, on March 1, 2014, the 60th anniversary of a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll.

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Bikini nuclear test marks 60th anniversary

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Matashichi Oishi (C), a former crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. H-bomb test at Bikini Atoll, shakes hands with a Marshallese survivor (L) in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands republic, on March 1, 2014, the 60th anniversary of the test. To the right is Kaede Nagashima, a Japanese university student from Fukushima, home to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Rongelap women sing in honor of H-bomb test victims

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Women from Rongelap Atoll sing a song about missing their native island during an event held March 1, 2014 in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands, in honor of victims of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on the Bikini Atoll.

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Bikini nuclear test marks 60th anniversary

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation chairperson Yasuyoshi Komizo makes a speech on March 1, 2014, during a memorial ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the 1954 U.S. H-bomb test at Bikini Atoll in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands republic.

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Japanese survivor of H-bomb test meets U.S. official

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Matashichi Oishi (L), a former crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated by the nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on the Bikini Atoll, chats with Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. acting undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands on March 1, 2014.

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Japan fisherman exposed to Bikini nuke fallout recalls ordeal

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Former Japanese fisherman Matashichi Oishi speaks of his exposure to nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. H-bomb test on Bikini Atoll at a school in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands republic, on Feb. 27, 2014. He was aboard the Fukuryu Maru No.5 near the atoll at that time.

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Japanese survivor of Bikini nuclear test speaks 60 years on

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Matashichi Oishi (R), a former crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated by nuclear fallout from a 1954 U.S. H-bomb test at Bikini Atoll, speaks during a memorial ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the test in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands republic, on March 1, 2014.

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Bikini nuclear test 60th anniversary

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Nerje Joseph (R), 65, a Marshallese survivor of the 1954 powerful nuclear test by the United States at Bikini Atoll, shakes hands with Matashichi Oishi (C), 80, a former crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the bomb test, when they meet in Majuro, the capital of Marshall Islands, on Feb. 28, 2014.

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Hiroshima mayor's letter handed to Marshall Islands president

MAJURO, Republic of Marshall Islands - Yasuyoshi Komizo (R), head of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, presents a letter from Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui to President Christopher Loeak of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific republic's capital of Majuro on Feb. 27, 2014, before the 60th anniversary on March 1 of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test, codenamed "Bravo," at Bikini Atoll.

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Fallout from U.S. nuke tests continues to take toll

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in December 2013 shows Masatoshi Yamashita, a former high school teacher, giving an interview at his home in Sukumo, Kochi Prefecture. Yamashita, together with his students, confirmed after 30 years of studies that some 1,000 Japanese fishing boats were exposed to "death ash" caused by a series of U.S. nuclear tests in the central Pacific Ocean around 60 years ago, in addition to the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 tuna fishing boat that was exposed to fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954.

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Japanese A-bomb illness expert

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 31, 2014, in the city of Hiroshima shows Nobuo Takeichi, a thyroid specialist, speaking about his late teacher Haruo Ezaki's report on a 1972 inspection of a U.S. medical survey team's activities in the Marshall Islands to check on the effects of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll.

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Fukushima students seek life lessons in Marshall Islands

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 8, 2014 shows Keiko Takahashi (R) and Kai Sato practicing interviewing at Fukushima University in Fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture, ahead of their visit to the Marshall Islands. Takahashi, Sato and two other Japanese university students visited the island nation in the Pacific Ocean on the occasion of the March 1 60th anniversary of U.S. hydrogen bomb tests on Bikini Atoll.

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Bikini Atoll radiation survivor continues antinuclear fight

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 19, 2014 shows Matashichi Oishi (L), a former crew member of the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, and his daughter, Yoshiko Tanaka, standing in front of the trawler preserved and displayed at the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall run by the Tokyo metropolitan government in Tokyo's Koto Ward. The tuna fishing boat was exposed to nuclear fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954, while fishing about 160 kilometers east of the atoll.

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Bikini Atoll radiation survivor continues antinuclear fight

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows officials measuring radiation levels of a tuna landed at the Tsukiji Market in Tokyo from the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 on March 16, 1954. The tuna fishing boat was exposed to nuclear fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1 that year, while fishing about 160 kilometers east of the atoll.

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Survivor of 1954 U.S. nuclear test still unable to return home

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Photo taken Jan. 21, 2014 shows Lemeyo Abon, survivor of radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, living in Majuro, the capital of the island nation, 600 kilometers south of her native Rongelap Atoll. Abon is still unable to return home 60 years after the United States detonated the bomb code-named "Bravo."

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Survivor of 1954 U.S. nuclear test still unable to return home

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 2011 shows the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The dark-colored bay-like area (center, upper) is a crater created by a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test.

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59th anniv. of Bikini Atoll test

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Marshall Islands Senator Kenneth Kedi speaks during a rally in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on March 1, 2013. Protesters called for the elimination of nuclear weapons at the rally held on the 59th anniversary of the exposure of a Japanese tuna fishing boat to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in 1954.

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59th anniv. of Bikini Atoll test

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Protesters call for the elimination of nuclear weapons at a rally in Yaizo, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on March 1, 2013, the 59th anniversary of the exposure of a Japanese tuna fishing boat to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in 1954.

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Antinuclear rally

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a 78-year-old former crew member of the trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5, speaks during a rally in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 1, 2012. Antinuclear activists called for an end to reliance on nuclear power at the rally on the 58th anniversary of the exposure of the tuna fishing boat to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific in 1954.

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Ex-Lucky Dragon crewman Oishi with his new book

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, former crew member of Japanese trawler the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, or Lucky Dragon No. 5, holds his new book on war and the history of nuclear weapons titled ''Mujun'' (L), meaning contradiction, and the English translation of another of his books, ''The Day the Sun Rose in the West'' (R), in Tokyo in November 2011. The boat and crew members were exposed to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean in 1954.

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Bikini Island

BIKINI ISLAND, Marshall Islands - Photo shows a ravaged room of an abandoned nuclear test observation post on Bikini Island in the Pacific on Aug. 27, 2011. The United States conducted nearly 70 nuclear bomb tests in the 1940s and 1950s in the vicinity of Bikini Atoll.

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Bikini Atoll

BIKINI ATOLL, Marshall Islands - Aerial photo shows Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands on Aug. 27, 2011. The cove-like, darker-color sea area (Center R) is where the crater, created by the 1954 detonation of a hydrogen bomb by the United States, is located, with coral reefs deeply gouged.

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Bikini Atoll

BIKINI ATOLL, Marshall Islands - Aerial photo shows Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands on Aug. 27, 2011. The cove-like, darker-color sea area (C) is where the crater, created by the 1954 detonation of a hydrogen bomb by the United States, is located, with coral reefs deeply gouged.

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Japan city offers Bikini Atoll peace city alliance

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Hiroshi Shimizu (L), mayor of the city of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan, and Bikinian mayor Alson Kelen shake hands in Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific, on Aug. 20, 2011. The Japanese mayor offered Bikini Atoll an alliance to promote bids for peace building by the two municipalities which have been affected by U.S. nuclear tests since the mid-20th century.

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Ex-crewman of irradiated Lucky Dragon No.5

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the Japanese trawler Lucky Dragon No. 5 which was exposed to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, speaks about his experience during a meeting in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2011. Oishi said people should not forget about the terrors of nuclear weapons.

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Diary of fisherman affected by 1954 H-bomb test

KOCHI, Japan - Japanese fisherman Takeshi Yamanaka reads from his diary at his home in Tosashimizu, Kochi Prefecture, on Dec. 25, 2010. In the diary kept by the crew member of the Kaifuku Maru No. 5, he records his likely exposure to radiation following a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific, and notes symptoms including headaches and diarrhea.

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Exhibition on nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll

TOKYO, Japan - A man looks at a photo panel at an exhibition in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2010, on the U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in 1954, in which a Japanese tuna fishing boat, the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 from Shizuoka Prefecture, was hit by radiation.

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March held in Shizuoka to mark 1954 Bikini Atoll H-bomb test

SHIZUOKA, Japan - About 1,000 people march in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture on March 1, calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons in commemoration of the 54th anniversary of the irradiation of the crew of a Yaizu-based Japanese fishing ship by a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. A march participant carried a photo of Aikichi Kuboyama, the ship's chief radio operator who died six months after the irradiation at the age of 40 and became a symbol of the 1954 incident.

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Peace march held to mark 1954 Bikini Atoll H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - People march in the fishing town of Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, after holding a rally to mark the 52nd anniversary of the irradiation of the crew of a Japanese fishing ship in 1954 by a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

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Peace march commemorates 1954 Bikini Atoll H-bomb blast

YAIZU, Japan - People march through the fishing town of Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 1 to mark the 51st anniversary of the irradiation of the crew of the fishing ship Fukuryu Maru No. 5 in 1954 by fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

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(5)Survivors mark 50th anniversary of Bikini H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - John Anjain, who was the community leader of Rongelap Island when the U.S. tested the hydrogen bomb ''Bravo'' at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954, speaks at an assembly in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, to mark the 50th anniversary of the test.

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(2)Survivors mark 50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - Survivors and peace activists on March 1 mark the 50th anniversary of an incident in which 23 crew members of the Japanese trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5 from Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Rongelap Island residents were irradiated by a blast from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. People paid tribute at the grave of Aikichi Kuboyama, chief radio operator of the Fukuryu Maru, with red roses.

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(3)50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test held in Majuro

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Marshall Islands President Kessai Note speaks at the 50th anniversary in Majuro on March 1 of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

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(1)50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test held in Majuro

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - The 50th anniversary of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific is marked in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands, on March l.

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(3)Survivors mark 50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - Survivors and peace activists on March 1 mark the 50th anniversary of an incident in which 23 crew members of the Japanese trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5 from Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Rongelap Island residents were irradiated by a blast from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. People paid tribute at the grave of Aikichi Kuboyama, chief radio operator of the Fukuryu Maru, with red roses.