Faculty Mentor
Dr. Chau Kelly, Associate Professor
Faculty Mentor Department
Department of History
Abstract
The United States conducted a series of nuclear tests in the Pacific that permanently displaced Marshall Islanders, specifically the indigenous population of Bikini Atoll. In addition to rendering their native environment uninhabitable, the U.S. used the bodies of the Rongelapese that they exposed to radioactive fallout as a living laboratory to study the effects of radiation. Nuclear Displacement in the Pacific has not received very much attention in historical scholarship, but nevertheless represents a well documented case of imperialism in U.S. History.
Recommended Citation
Faucher, Jessica
(2021)
"Nuclear Displacement: Effects of America's Nuclear Tests on Pacific Islanders,"
PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas: Vol. 2:
No.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/pandion_unf/vol2/iss1/8
