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July 7, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French secret agents in Auckland harbour on 10 July 1985 the ship had evacuated the entire population of 320 from Rongelap in the Marshall Islands. After conducting dozens of above-ground nuclear explosions, the US government had left the ... <a title="The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific – the evacuation of Rongelap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/07/the-rainbow-warrior-saga-part-2-nuclear-refugees-in-the-pacific-the-evacuation-of-rongelap/" aria-label="Read more about The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific – the evacuation of Rongelap">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2025
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal, and RNZ Pacific correspondent A new report on the United States nuclear weapons testing legacy in the Marshall Islands highlights the lack of studies into important health concerns voiced by Marshallese for decades that make it impossible to have a clear understanding of the impacts of the 67 ... <a title="Marshall Islands nuclear legacy: report highlights lack of health research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/06/marshall-islands-nuclear-legacy-report-highlights-lack-of-health-research/" aria-label="Read more about Marshall Islands nuclear legacy: report highlights lack of health research">Read more</a>
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March 15, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro The late Member of Parliament Jeton Anjain and the people of the nuclear test-affected Rongelap Atoll changed the course of the history of the Marshall Islands by using Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior ship to evacuate their radioactive home islands ... <a title="Marshall Islands: How the Rongelap evacuation changed the course of history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/15/marshall-islands-how-the-rongelap-evacuation-changed-the-course-of-history/" aria-label="Read more about Marshall Islands: How the Rongelap evacuation changed the course of history">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2024
World Council of Churches Today is Remembrance Day — marking the 70th anniversary of the largest US nuclear test detonation, Castle Bravo, which took place over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on 1 March 1954. As one Marshallese resident noted: “It’s not the middle of nowhere to those who call it home.” When Castle ... <a title="Victims and survivors of nuclear testing honoured in Marshall Islands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/02/victims-and-survivors-of-nuclear-testing-honoured-in-marshall-islands/" aria-label="Read more about Victims and survivors of nuclear testing honoured in Marshall Islands">Read more</a>
