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Marshall Islanders living on O’ahu joined members of Veterans For Peace, Hawai’i Peace & Justice and Refuse Fascism on Monday, March 1
st at Magic Island in Honolulu to remember the 1954 U.S. detonation of the Castle Bravo nuclear bomb on Bikini Atoll. After sharing words and song, five Bikinians went sailing on the historic
The Honolulu remembrance was part of the Golden Rule Project’s educational program about the growing danger of nuclear war, and the great damage that has already been done by nuclear weapons.
At 15 megatons, 1,000 times the magnitude of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear weapons, the Castle Bravo bomb vaporized three islands and contaminated many others. Despite a stern warning from the weather forecaster, Castle Bravo was blast on a day when the wind was blowing over the Marshall Islands population. Fine white radioactive fallout rained down on the islanders, with children playing in the snow and even ea