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Bikini and the Hydrogen Bomb: A Fifty Year Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Tomaki Juda  and
Charles J. Hanley
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2004 is the fiftieth anniversary of the Hydrogen Bomb test at Bikini that has rendered the island and nearby atolls uninhabitable ever since. Two earlier Japan Focus articles (http://japanfocus.org/094.html and http://japanfocus.org/097.html) portrayed the impact of the blast on the crew of the Japanese fishing boat Lucky Dragon, and the subsequent course of the anti-nuclear movement. The two articles presented here detail the consequences of atomic and hydrogen bomb testing on Bikini and neighboring atolls, including the consequences for displaced people, the continued failure of the U.S. government to clean up the radioactive islands, and the long stalled negotiations with the U.S. government to compensate the people of Bikini.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 7 , July 2004 , e7
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