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The legacy of colonialism casts a long shadow
We must never forget Remembrance Day in the Marshall Islands where the US carried out 67 nuclear tests in 12 years, says BILL KIDD MSP
A nuclear test in 1946 at Bikini Atoll, which is part of the Marshall Islands
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YESTERDAY was Remembrance Day in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the small Pacific Ocean state which only became independent 35 years ago.
It will forever carry the legacy of its colonial past due to the United States exploding 67 nuclear tests on its territory over a 12-year period following the second world war.
The strength of these tests was such that it was the equivalent of a Hiroshima explosion every day of those 12 years.
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