US policy toward the Marshall Islands must change

An explosion 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. A legacy of environmental contamination, sickness, death, displacement, and human experimentation. A day of mourning in the Marshall Islands, and a dark period in U.S. history that few Americans know. The United States must finally give the Marshall Islands fair compensation and an apology for nuclear testing. March 1 marks the 70th anniversary of a thermonuclear weapons test called Castle Bravo, the most powerful bomb ever detonated by the U.S. military. It created a fireball 4.5 miles wide, hotter than the core of the sun, and launched ten million tons…