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February 3, 2009

US Court Dismisses Pacific Nuclear Test Lawsuits
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A panel of US appeal judges have ruled the US government does not have
to pay a $1 billion compensation settlement to residents of Bikini and
Enewetak, two Pacific islands where the US carried out sixty-seven
nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958. The islands became uninhabitable
after the weapons tests, forcing the residents of Bikini and Enewetak
away from their homes.



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