Nuclear Tests in the Marshall Islands
Between 1946 and 1958, the U.S. conducted a series of nuclear tests on the Marshall Islands. The country detonated 67 nuclear bombs, wiping away entire islands, and forcing hundreds of people to evacuate. Before the U.S. left, it and the Marshall Islands reached an agreement for the former not to hold the latter responsible for any after-effects of the tests. But the U.S. withheld various pieces of information about what it had done on the islands, including the fact that it had imported some of its own nuclear waste to store there. Sea level rise is now threatening some of those waste facilities.
Nuclear weapons have already made compelling fodder for movies from Dr. Strangelove to various spy movies like Mission Impossible. There’s no reason a historical account couldn’t add to the oeuvre.
