Between the years of 1946 to 1958, this was the site of the Pacific Proving Grounds...The United States test Sixty67Seven Nuclear Weapons here...six plus decades later, which has lead the way for countless Godzilla movies (plus+points for mentioning Godzilla).
FYI: Castle Bravo was the largest nuclear test the USA has ever conduct (and did so here)...and in 1952, THE HYDROGEN BOMB (code name "Ivy Mike") test actually destroyed two of the Islands here.
In 1956, the Atomic Energy Commission regarded this area as "the most contaminated area on the planet". Lovely! Vacation anyone?
To date, the US government has paid almost 800 Mi$$ion Do$$ars in health care to the residents of this country...many more ongoing cases still linger.
On a lighter, much more environmentally friendly note...in October of 2011 (just two months ago), Their Government declared Two Million Square Kilometers of the surrounding Ocean as a Shark Sanctuary (the World's Largest of its kind)...sharks here are protect from being Kept by fishing boats.
Also...
In 2007, Witon Barry (of the Tobolar Copra Processing Plant) announced that the power authorities, private companies and entrepreneurs here are/were planning on experimenting with using coconut oil as an alternate fuel source for vehicles, generators and ships.
The climate here is Hot, and the wet season is from May to November.
Welcome readers from Marshall Islands, the fifty sixth country to participate on this ongoing blog in Human Dynamics.
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