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  2. Project 4.1 - Wikipedia

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    The cover to the Project 4.1 Final Report, "Study of Response of Human Beings Accidentally Exposed to Significant Fallout Radiation" Project 4.1 was the designation for a medical study and experimentation conducted by the United States of those residents of the Marshall Islands exposed to radioactive fallout from the 1 March 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, which had an ...

  3. Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll - Wikipedia

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    Six days after the Castle Bravo test, the government set up a secret project to study the medical effects of the weapon on the residents of the Marshall Islands. [32] The United States was subsequently accused of using the inhabitants as medical research subjects without obtaining their consent to study the effects of nuclear exposure. [28]

  4. Castle Bravo - Wikipedia

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    Castle Bravo was the first in a series of high-yield thermonuclear weapon design tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Castle. Detonated on March 1, 1954, the device remains the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States and the first lithium deuteride -fueled ...

  5. Rongelap Atoll - Wikipedia

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    Rongelap Atoll / ˈ r ɒ ŋ ɡ əl æ p / RONG-gə-lap (Marshallese: Ron̄ļap, [rʷɔŋʷ(ɔ)lˠɑpʲ] [3]) is an uninhabited coral atoll of 61 islands (or motus) in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is 8 square miles (21 km 2).

  6. List of United States nuclear weapons tests - Wikipedia

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    Trinity, part of Project Manhattan, was the first ever nuclear explosion. The nuclear weapons tests of the United States were performed from 1945 to 1992 as part of the nuclear arms race . The United States conducted around 1,054 nuclear tests by official count, including 216 atmospheric, underwater, and space tests.

  7. Marshall Islands - Wikipedia

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    The Marshall Islands is the only country in the world that does not have a national football team. [150] The Marshall Islands is therefore the only sovereign country in the world that does not have a record of a national football match. [151]

  8. List of countries by infant and under-five mortality rates

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    Under-five mortality rate per 1,000 live births (OECD-World Bank, 2020) LOCATION 2020 rate Australia 3.7 Austria 3.6 Belgium 4.2 Canada 5.0 Chile 6.8 Colombia 13.2 ...

  9. Operation Hardtack I - Wikipedia

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    The detonation produced an 18,000-foot (5.5 km) cloud that stabilized at 16,000 feet (4.9 km) by 1430. The DOD-sponsored experiments for TOBACCO were Projects 3.7, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, and 6.8. The project activity for Project 3.7 was on Boken, Enjebi, and Runit. Project 6.8 simply monitored TOBACCO from stations off Enewetak and Parry islands.