40 Years on – Reflecting on Rainbow Warrior’s Legacy, Fight Against Nuclear Colonialism

The US nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands have done far more damage than the US acknowledges, says Greenpeace. A new study shows the extent of the load.

All inhabited atolls in the Marshall Islands are radioactively contaminated, the damage being "more grave than previously acknowledged" that they are felt worldwide, even today, the NGO says.

The Marshall Islands in the Pacific were the scene of 67 US nuclear tests in the 1940s and 1950s. According to a study, the devastating effects of these tests are still noticeable.

40 years on – reflecting on Rainbow Warrior’s legacy, fight against nuclear colonialism

A forthcoming new edition of David Robie’s Eyes of Fire honours the ship’s final mission and the resilience of those affected by decades of radioactive fallout. PACIFIC MORNINGS: By Aui’a Vaimaila Leatinu’u The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior III ship returns to Aotearoa this July, 40 years after the bombing of the original campaign ship, with a new edition of its landmark eyewitness account. On 10 July 1985, two underwater bombs planted by …