Johnston Atoll, located in the central Pacific Ocean and one of the most isolated places in the world, is U.S. territory and is used by the military for test launchings of nuclear missiles. It contains a landfill of plutonium-contaminated waste as well as remains of destroyed chemical ...
France has carried out another underground nuclear test in the South Pacific. It is the fifth in the region since September. The test was conducted at the Moruroa atoll on Wednesday. Paris has come under strong criticism for its nuclear testing programme, especially from Asia-Pacific countries....
Plutonium particles from 1954 Bikini Atoll nuclear test accumulating in Japanese bay
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Japan remembers 1954 U.S. nuclear test in Pacific: Bikini atoll hydrogen blast exposed fishermen to fatal radiationMari Yamaguchi