is located in the Republic of the Marshall Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It consists of 29 atoll groups and 5 small islands totaling 1225 large and small islands. Its total land area is only a small country of 181.3 square kilometers, but its marine exclusive economic zone covers an area of 2.131 million square kilometers. However, during the U.S. trusteeship, 67 nuclear tests were conducted here, resulting in Marshall becoming "the most polluted place in the world so far." Especially Bikini Island, where 24 nuclear tests have been carried out, has since been no longer suitable for people to live.
Marshall Islands
Marshall Islands has a beautiful natural environment and is known as the black pearl in the South Pacific. In the early 16th century, Western navigators discovered the Marshall Islands. It became a protected territory of Germany in 1886. At the beginning of World War I, the Marshall Islands was occupied by Japan and became a base for Japanese operations in the Pacific during World War II. In 1944, the U.S. forces expelled Japanese troops from occupying the Marshall Islands, and the United States imposed military control over them. In July 1947, the Marshall Islands was entrusted to the United States by the United Nations. In 1986, the Republic of the Marshall Islands became independent, but the United States was solely responsible for defense.
A remote island; the Marshall Islands
For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands have lived a self-sufficient life. However, when the first American came here, Bikini Island became a hell on earth. Nuclear weapons have tremendous lethality and serious radioactive pollution. Therefore, in order to keep its homeland away from the dangers posed by nuclear tests, the United States believes that such a nuclear test with such a huge lethality must not be carried out in the United States. Therefore, they turned their attention to the islands in the Pacific Ocean.
The Marshall Islands has become the most important military base of the US military in the Pacific. According to reports, the United States carried out more than 60 atomic and hydrogen bomb explosions in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958. The largest nuclear test was more than 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Among them, the most open and flat Bikini Atoll has become the most ideal testing ground for nuclear weapons.
The United States has conducted 24 nuclear tests here. Nuclear tests have turned this scenic tropical paradise into a hell full of nuclear radiation, and have also caused permanent damage to the environment in the nearby Pacific Ocean. The strong radiation has made this place "so far The most polluted place in the world by far". Some data show that a secret test of a hydrogen bomb caused nuclear pollution. It was not until 1958 that the United States, under pressure from all over the world, stopped its nuclear test in the Marshall Islands.
On July 25, 1946, the United States conducted the world's first underwater atomic bomb test on Bikini Island. The huge radioactive water column provoked by the explosion was shocking. A few weeks later, the French designer launched a three-point swimsuit. Because this swimsuit was quite exposed and completely broke through the traditional bottom line of people at the time, the inventor believed that its influence was no different from a nuclear explosion, so it was named "bikini swimsuit."
Summer vacation yoga woman
These experiments have brought serious radioactive pollution to Bikini Atoll. In 1969, the United States sent people to eradicate the heavily polluted vegetation and topsoil on Bikini Island, and planted more than 50,000 coconut and bread trees to allow these bikini residents to return to their homes. Unfortunately, the radioactivity level was later detected to be still high, and the residents had to be moved out again. Bikini Island continued to be cleaned up. In 1997, it was declared safe to live. However, because the food was heavily contaminated, the residents of the island inhaled a large amount of radioactive material cesium and became sick. Thyroid tumors and leukemia have almost become common diseases of the Marshallese.
For nearly half a century, residents who once lived on the island have repeatedly asked the United States to remove the pollution caused by nuclear tests on the island and nearby waters, and filed a lawsuit against the United States. Before this, there were related reports that all Bikini Island residents wanted to move to the United States. But nothing follows. Today, Bikini Island is uninhabited and even animals have disappeared. The villagers on the island have been tortured by nuclear radiation for 40 years, and this pollution will be deeply rooted in their genes, polluting future generations.
