Between 1946 and 1958 the United States tested 67 nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands. That’s a total yield of 108 megatons or the equivalent of more than 7,000 Hiroshima-types bombs.

The largest of these tests took place on March 1st, 1954. That bomb alone was equal to 1,000 Hiroshima bombs.

Richard Li is a counselor at Marshall Islands High School, and he has studied the atomic tests.

He told Nissa what the immediate consequences of the tests were for the islanders.

*Correction: Richard Li said in the interview that 1 nuclear test took place in Enewetak Atoll and 66 in Bikini Atoll, when in fact 43 tests took place in Enewetak and 23 in Bikini.