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  • Don't Ever Whisper: Darlene Keju, Pacific Health Pioneer, Champion for Nuclear Survivors, Giff Johnson, published June 2013

  • Report on the human rights impact of the US nuclear weapons testing programme in the Marshall Islands, UN Special Rapporteur on the Implications for Human Rights of the Environmentally Sound Management and Disposal of Hazardous Substances and Wastes, 3 September 2012

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  • US Court Dismisses Lawsuit Brought by People of Bikini Atoll, Yokwe Online, 3 August 2007

  • US rebuffs Rongelap landowners, cuts funds, Giff Johnson, 18 June 2007

  • Marshalls Tribunal awards nuke victims $1 billion, Giff Johnson, 19 April 2007

  • Marshalls mark 53rd anniversary of atomic blast, Radio New Zealand International, 1 March 2007

  • Oregon Marshallese Stand with Nuke Legacy Victims, Yokwe Online, 16 March 2006

  • Marshall Islanders in Salem Commemorate Bikinians' 60-Year Exile, Yokwe Online, 16 March 2006

  • Marshallese Senator Speaks of Nuclear Legacy on Generations, Office of the RMI President, 15 March 2006

  • Bikini islanders sue United States for US$563m, Radio Australia Pacific Beat, 10 March 2006

  • Photo album: 60th anniversary of Bikinians exile, March 2006

  • Bikini, Enewetak to file nuke lawsuits against US, Marianas Variety, 10 March 2006

  • Rongelap observes grim nuclear test anniversary, Marianas Variety, 8 March 2006

  • President Note Calls For Full US Settlement, Office of the RMI President, 8 March 2006

  • Photo album: Nuclear Nomads, Francis X Hezel, February 2006 - the populations of Bikini, Enewetak, and Rongelap were shunted from island to island becuase of the US nuclear weapons testing programme, and could justifiably be called 'nuclear nomads'.

  • Senators Acknowledge Moral Responsibility to Address the Marshall Islands’ Nuclear Testing Legacy, RMI Embassy, 19 July 2005

  • Statement on Behalf of the People of Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap, and Utrők Atolls before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Senator Hiroshi V. Yamamura, 19 July 2005

  • Statement of Neal A. Palafox, MD MPH, Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, To the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, 19 July 2005

  • Statement of James H. Plasman, Chairman, Nuclear Claims Tribunal, RMI, Before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 19 July 2005

  • Statement of the Honorable Gerald M. Zackios, Minister of Foreign Affairs, RMI, to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, 19 July 2005

  • Statement of the Honorable Eni F.H. Faleomavaega before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Regarding the United States Nuclear Testing Program on the Marshall Islands, 19 July 2005

  • US NGOs Support Marshall Islands Cause at Senate Hearing, July 2005

  • Senate Committee to Review US Nuke Legacy in Marshall Islands, Aenet Rowa, 18 July 2005

  • GAO: US and Compact Nations facing Funding Accountability Challenges, Yokwe Online, 11 July 2005

  • Indigenous Presentation to the Delegates of the Seventh Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Tony de Brum, 11 May 2005

  • Senator Abacca Anjain-Maddison, Rongelap, Marshall Islands, speaks in Wellington on 7 December, and in Auckland on 9 December 2004

  • Remarks of Rongelap Mayor James Matayoshi, on the 50th anniversary of Bravo detonation, 1 March 2004

  • Rongelap Remembers, index of photos on the 50th anniversary of Bravo detonation, 1 March 2004

  • Statement of Bikini Atoll Senator Tomaki Juda, on the 50th anniversary of the Bravo shot, 1 March 2004.

  • 50th Bravo Anniversary Commemoration Brochure, United Methodist Church, 1 March 2004.

  • Marshall Islands Women's Health Issues: Nuclear Fallout, Nancy J. Pollock, 28 February 2004

  • PCRC applauds statement by Fijian Prime Minister against Missile Testing, PCRC, 16 August 2002

  • Agent found outside Johnston Atoll depot, Karen Zacharias, 20 August 2002

  • Killing Me Softly: why is it that whenever I think of the Pacific, the word 'dumping' comes to mind? Aziz Choudry, 3 August 2002

  • US Says It Wants Kwajalein Missile Test Range For 40 More Years, AFP, 29 May 2002

  • Billion Dollar Battle Over Central Pacific US Missile Range: The Range In Action, Giff Johnson, 4 March 2002

  • Weapons in space: impact on the Pacific, Peace Movement Aotearoa / WILPF, 13 October 2001

  • Address to the 2001 World Conference against A & H Bombs, Senator Abacca Anjain-Maddison, Rongelap, Marshall Islands, 4 August 2001

  • Address to the 2001 World Conference against A & H Bombs, Hon. Eldon Note, Mayor, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, 4 August 2001

  • Alert ! Pacific target for US missiles again, Peace Movement Aotearoa/FOE, 30 June 2000

  • US law firm to help negotiate Kwajalein missile range deal, 28 February 2000

  • Kwajalein Atoll and the new arms race, PCRC briefing, 1 February 2000

  • Kwajalein missile tests endanger arms control treaties, PCRC statement, 20 January 2000

  • Pacific - Star Wars test, 17 January 2000

  • Marshall Islands Cancer Rate Extreme, 23 March 1999


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  • More articles about the Marshall Islands are available on the Star Wars / Weapons in Space and Nuclear Weapons testing index pages

  • Marshall Islands web site

  • ican (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) Aotearoa New Zealand web site

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