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Secrecy and injustice regarding nuclear tests in Marshall Islands

Marshalls anger over nuclear reports and compensation  http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/pacific-beat/marshalls-anger-over-nuclear-reports-and-compensation/999420 
  15 August 2012,   The announcement was made by US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell during his visit to the Marshall Islands.
Presenter: Geraldine Coutts
Speaker: Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal
JOHNSON: “…..   more than 50 years after the last nuclear test was conducted in the Marshall Islands, that the US government has still not released fallout dose data for about 75% of those nuclear tests. So it’s extremely difficult for the Marshall Islands to have an understanding of what the actual exposure and impact of the test was and this relates to a lot of very big picture questions, such as the adequacy of US nuclear test compensation.
Pressure from Marshall Islands Government has pushed the United States to agree to review classified US nuclear test era reports…..

 . It still has not declassified documents from the testing in 56 and 58 and those tests made up the majority of the nuclear weapons detonated in the Marshall Islands. And it’s just unbelievable that the US government won’t release fallout dose data to the Marshall Islands. I mean it really calls into question the whole compensation arrangement, because how does the Marshall Islands know without access to this documentation what the extent of exposure was and particularly when the US government will acknowledge only four atolls in this country as so-called exposed populations. …….
 even today, from the information that has been declassified, we know that virtually every inhabited island received fallout and the irony of the situation in looking at the fairness of it is in the United States, the US has a compensation program for the downwinders, the people who live near the Nevada test site and the people in Nevada and Utah area who are eligible for compensation. They’re highest exposure is lowest than the lowest exposure of Marshall Islanders, many of whom are not eligible for compensation in the Marshall Islands. So it goes straight to the fairness of the compensation arrangement.  http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/pacific-beat/marshalls-anger-over-nuclear-reports-and-compensation/999420

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