The US Devastated the Marshall Islands — And Is Now Refusing to Aid the Marshallese People

Early in the morning of March 1, 1954, the United States detonated what was then the most powerful nuclear bomb in history at Bikini Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands. Known as Castle Bravo, the test ignited a four-mile-wide fireball, vaporized entire islands, contaminated more than seven thousan...