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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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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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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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(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)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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(1)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. About 2,000 people marched to the grave of Aikichi Kuboyama, who was chief radio operator of the Fukuryu Maru.

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(4)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. Photo shows the Fukuryu Maru displayed at Yumenoshima in Tokyo's Koto Ward.

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(1)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 South Pacific. About 2,000 people marched to the grave of Aikichi Kuboyama, who was chief radio operator of the Fukuryu Maru. (Kyodo)

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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 South Pacific. People paid tribute at the grave of Aikichi Kuboyama, chief radio operator of the Fukuryu Maru, with red roses. (Kyodo)

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Marshall Islands nuclear test

Nerje Joseph, who was exposed to nuclear fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, is interviewed at her home on Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Nov. 28, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Marshall Islands nuclear test

Nerje Joseph, who was exposed to nuclear fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, is interviewed at her home on Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Nov. 28, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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. (Kyodo)

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(4)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 South Pacific. Photo shows the Fukuryu Maru displayed at Yumenoshima in Tokyo's Koto Ward. (Kyodo)

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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 South Pacific. People paid tribute at the grave of Aikichi Kuboyama, chief radio operator of the Fukuryu Maru, with red roses. (Kyodo)