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Enewetok,

Eniwetok

(ĕnĭwē`tŏk, ĕnē`wĕtôk), circular atoll, central Pacific, one of the Ralik Chain in the Marshall IslandsMarshall Islands,
officially Republic of the Marshall Islands, independent nation (2015 est. pop. 53,000), in the central Pacific. The Marshalls extend over a 700-mi (1,130-km) area and comprise two major groups: the Ratak Chain in the east, and the Ralik Chain in the west, with
..... Click the link for more information. . Enewetak is c.50 mi (80 km) in circumference and comprises about 40 islets surrounding a large lagoon. Mandated to Japan by the League of Nations in 1920, Enewetak was captured in World War II by U.S. forces. Designated an atomic proving station, it was the site of atomic tests from 1947 to 1962 (first thermonuclear tests). Former residents, evacuated before the tests started, began returning in the early 1970s, and the island was declared to have been rendered safe in 1980.

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"Four of Enewetak's 40 islands were completely vaporized by the tests, with one thermonuclear blast leaving a two-kilometer-wide crater where an island had been just moments before," ABC News' Mark Willacy noted in his investigative piece.

U.S. Dome of Nuclear Waste on Enewetak Atoll Wreaks Havoc on Indigenous Population

The safety question has been a difficult one for the people of Bikini and Enewetak atolls.

Back to bikini: scientists study lingering radioactivity at 'ground zero' for nuclear weapons testing after World War II

"The Department of Energy has provided scholarships for young people to study nuclear issues so that they can better understand nuclear legacy questions, and they monitor Runit Dome, which is a repository for nuclear waste in Enewetak."

Marshall Islands: climate change and security cooperation key concerns to tiny island nation

In the 1970s, the US government endeavoured to 'clean up' Enewetak Atoll, the other ground zero location besides Bikini, by creating a temporary nuclear storage facility on Runit Island.

Confronting a trinity of institutional barriers: denial, cover-up, and secrecy

Ebert, "Growth and size of the tropical sea cucumber Holothuria (Halodeima) atra Jager at Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands," Pacific Science, vol.

Asexual reproduction in holothurians

The United States conducted nuclear tests on and around the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, two of the 29 atolls and five islands comprising the Republic of the Marshall Islands, from 1946 to 1958.

Pacific countries to remind U.S. of nuclear test responsibility

At 15 megatons, 'Castle Bravo,' was unexpectedly the largest (1) of 67 tests of nuclear and thermonuclear devices conducted at the Bikini and Enewetak atolls in the northern Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958.

Nuclear contamination of food in the Pacific Lifting the veil of secrecy

Alvaro de Saavedra stayed at an atoll (possibly Enewetak or Bikini) for eight days in 1529 (Hezel 1983 in Rainbird 2004: 14; Spennemann 2004: 3).

Archaeology of brutal encounter: heritage and bomb testing on Bikini Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands

(45) Thermonuclear warheads had to wait until the successful conclusion of physicist Edward Teller's work with the November 1, 1952, Ivy Mike test of the hydrogen bomb at Enewetak atoll in the Pacific.

Armageddon's shortening fuse: ham advances in nuclear weapons technology pushed strategists to mutually assured destruction, 1945-1962

Enewetak, the Air Force and Nuclear Defense Agency were conducting

At war and peace with the National Environmental Policy Act: when political questions and the environment collide

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