So we (the U.S.) tested 67 nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands from 1946-1958. If you take the explosive yield and spread it out evenly, the equivalent would be like setting off one and a half Hiroshima bombs every day for twelve years.
In the above video, Washington Post reporter Dan Zak, who visited the Marshall Islands in March, 2015, discusses his work on the immediate and long-term fallout in the Marshall Islands, particularly related to the country’s nuclear age.
Dan’s book on nuclear testing, Almighty, includes the events in the Marshall Islands.
Follows are links to some of Zak’s other reports on the Marshalls and the book on Amazon:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/11/27/a-ground-zero-forgotten/
http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/scuba-paradise-and-plutonium-nightmares-amid-rising-seas
