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Armes nucléaires Essais Effets physiologiquesDocumentaryMarshall IslandsNuclear weapons Testing Environmental aspectsNuclear weapons Testing Environmental aspects Marshall IslandsNuclear weapons Testing Physiological effectOperation Castle, Marshall Islands, 1954
Directed by: Dennis O'Rourke
Overview
Examines the effects both immediate and long term of radioactive materials on people of Rongelap and Utirik Atolls in the Marshall Islands. These people and several U.S. weathermen were neither informed of the U.S. hydrogen bomb test, Operation Castle, in 1954 nor were they evacuated from the islands. Using decassified government archival film and contemporary interviews the film presents a picture of the results of a radiation experiment on a human population