The Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal: The Claims of the Enewetak People

摘要

The United States conducted sixty-seven nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands in a twelve year period between 1946 and 1958. Forty-three of those tests occurred on Enewetak Atoll; the remainder occurred on Bikini Atoll. The yield of the tests in the Marshall Islands totaled 108 megatons which is equivalent to 7,200 Hiroshima bombs. During the twelve-year nuclear testing program, the Marshall Islands was a United Nations Trust Territory administered by the United States, which had pledged to the United Nations to "protect the inhabitants against the loss of their lands and resources."