Published: 6:21PM Monday September 16, 2013 Source: ONE News <\/p>\n
The Marshall Islands is vowing to keep fighting for more compensation from the United States for 12 years of nuclear testing. <\/p>\n
The US conducted 67 atmospheric tests in the 1940s and '50s which are still affecting locals to this day. <\/p>\n
ONE News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver, reporting from the capital, Majuro, says time has punished the Marshall Islands people. <\/p>\n
She spoke to a group of women who all have cancer, all still affected by nuclear fallout decades ago. <\/p>\n
\"Most of us had skin burns as if somebody had showered us with boiled water,\" said Nerje Joseph, one of the nuclear victims. <\/p>\n
The biggest of the 67 nuclear tests, Castle Bravo, was the equivalent to 1000 Hiroshima bombs. <\/p>\n
When fallout hit Rongolap Atoll, locals like Rinok Riklow thought it was like shampoo and soap, and she rubbed it into her hair and body. <\/p>\n
Generations on, she and hundreds of others have paid the price. <\/p>\n
\"The original people that were exposed are dying but the next two or three generations are showing the same effects,\" said Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Phillip Muller. <\/p>\n
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