Marshall Islands

INTRODUCTION The Marshall Islands on its surface is a paradise waiting to be discovered. The atolls, only 7 meters average above sea level, offer beautiful vistas and eye catching sea life to tourists from all over. History though offers a different story to tell us. This is one not of vistas and paradise but of war, and nuclear bombs. The Marshall Islands holds in its lands some of the great stories of human expansion in prehistoric times, colonization during the European exploration era, and

flooded house. Your home, your life, changed over night. This fear is a prominent and existent fear for the natives of the Marshall Islands. “In the heart of the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia lies one of the most remote inhabited places on the planet. The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) consists of 29 coral atolls comprising 1,156 individual islands and islets, distributed across 750,000 square miles of tropical ocean in two nearly parallel chains” (Pacheco). With climate

Territory of the Pacific Islands and a conventional long form of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Marshall Islands is a country in Oceania. It is about halfway between Hawaii and Australia. Its capital city is Majuro. Marshallese is their official language and English is widely spoken as a second language. As of July 2013, their population was 69,747. The Marshall Islands has a very interesting history, government, economy, and many other things. The Marshall Islands has had a very unique

As the United States sought control of the Marshall Islands to advance forces on Japan, the Gilbert Islands stood as the avenue of success in the Central Pacific Campaign. Operation Galvanic arose

America is obligated to aid the Republic of the Marshall Islands with climate change refuge and relief due to the destructive colonial past and modern imperial presence of the U.S. in the RMI. The American Colonial Past in the Republic of the Marshall Islands The biggest evidence towards the U.S. geopolitical obligations to the RMI is the fact that in the span of a decade, initiated in 1946, the U.S. tested around seventy nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands. Stuart Kirsch, professor of Anthropology

devastation to the island nations of the Pacific. Within the next ten years, Earth’s purest “tropical paradise” will cease to exist.

Climate Justice and Accountability One portion of the Paris Agreement that will be critical to uphold is the $100 billion pledge from developed countries to developing countries to combat the effects of climate change. Specifically, this pledge would provide compensation for the millions of people a year who are displaced from their homes because of natural disasters, the overwhelming majority being from developing countries. The promise will increase to $600 billion by 2025 but does little to counter

The U.S. began their destruction of the island. A nuclear weapon is "a weapon that derives its energy from the nuclear reactions of fission and/or fusion." Even the smallest nuclear weapons are more powerful than all but the largest of conventional explosives. Many of these weapons were tested on Bikini Atoll over a period of eight years, but one test in particular would nearly destroy the island and infect it and the natives for years to come. Their Bikini Atoll would

Consequences of a Close Relationship With The United States Based on (name of video here), there are numerous factors that contributed to chronic and infectious diseases increase in the Marshall Islands. However, all of the factors evolve around the lack of social and political reforms that favored residents. Instead, policies were geared toward furnishing the military forces. Consequently there are three distinct results of this relationship which is as follows: exposure to radiation, displacement

again I ask, who is good and who is evil? After the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States was eager to learn more about the impacts of nuclear devices on the environment. The United States set up several nuclear bomb tests on the Marshall Islands in which they properly planned for. However one test, code named Operation Castle, went horribly wrong. Scientists involved in the test claim they expected an explosive yield of four to six megatons, but instead a yield of fifteen resulted. For