AFP
March 1, 2014

Marshall Islands, Enoko Island beach / Image via Wikimedia Commons
Marshall Islands, Enoko Island beach / Image via Wikimedia Commons
The Marshall Islands marks 60 years since the devastating US hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll Saturday, with angry exiled residents saying they are too fearful ever to go home.

Part of the intense Cold War nuclear arms race, the 15-megaton Bravo test on March 1, 1954 was a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

It vaporised one island and exposed thousands in the surrounding area to radioactive fallout.

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