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March 20, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Pacific Media Watch Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths of Plains FM96.9 radio talk to Dr David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report, about heightened global fears of nuclear war as tensions have mounted since US President Donald Trump has returned to power. Dr Robie reminds ... <a title="Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to David Robie" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/20/nuclear-free-pacific-back-to-the-future-earthwise-talks-to-david-robie/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to David Robie">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 5, 2025
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific Bulletin editor/presenter The Marshall Islands marked 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tests ever conducted were unleashed over the weekend. The Micronesian nation experienced 67 known atmospheric nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958, resulting in an ongoing legacy of death, illness, and contamination. The country’s President Hilda Heine ... <a title="Seven decades on, Marshall Islands still reeling from nuclear testing legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/05/seven-decades-on-marshall-islands-still-reeling-from-nuclear-testing-legacy/" aria-label="Read more about Seven decades on, Marshall Islands still reeling from nuclear testing legacy">Read more</a>
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November 13, 2024
ABC Radio Australia and RNZ You probably know about the last moments of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in 1985. But what do you know about the environmental campaign ship’s last voyage before it was bombed by French secret agents in New Zealand on 10 July 1985? Where had it come from, why was it ... <a title="The last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior – Rongelap podcast series" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/13/the-last-voyage-of-the-rainbow-warrior-rongelap-podcast-series/" aria-label="Read more about The last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior – Rongelap podcast series">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2024
The first report in a five-part web series focused on the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women taking place in the Marshall Islands this week. SPECIAL REPORT: By Netani Rika in Majuro Women continue to fight for justice 70 years after the first nuclear tests by the United States caused devastation on the people and ... <a title="70 years on from tests, Marshallese women still fight for nuclear justice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/26/70-years-on-from-tests-marshallese-women-still-fight-for-nuclear-justice/" aria-label="Read more about 70 years on from tests, Marshallese women still fight for nuclear justice">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>
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July 1, 2023
By Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist Securing a nuclear-free region has been a long battle for the Pacific. After the Second World War, the United States, along with its French and British allies, frequently tested nuclear weapons in the region. In 1963 the British, American and Soviet governments agreed to ban atmospheric tests, but India, ... <a title="Anti-nuclear movements need to return to table, says FANG activist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/01/anti-nuclear-movements-need-to-return-to-table-says-fang-activist/" aria-label="Read more about Anti-nuclear movements need to return to table, says FANG activist">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2023
By Giff Johnson, Editor, Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent Following widespread media coverage of the collapse of what was a more than US$70 million trust fund for Bikini islanders displaced by American nuclear weapons testing, the United States Congress has demanded answers from the Interior Department about the status of the trust fund. ... <a title="Congressmen angry that Bikini islanders’ nuclear trust fund may have been ‘squandered’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/30/congressmen-angry-that-bikini-islanders-nuclear-trust-fund-may-have-been-squandered/" aria-label="Read more about Congressmen angry that Bikini islanders’ nuclear trust fund may have been ‘squandered’">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2023
By Giff Johnson, Editor, Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent Two Pacific nations considered by Washington as crucial in its competition with China for influence in the region have agreed to 20-year extensions of funding arrangements as part of security and defence treaties. The Federated States of Micronesia signed off on a nearly-final Compact ... <a title="US envoy gets two of three north Pacific nations to sign defence deals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/19/us-envoy-gets-two-of-three-north-pacific-nations-to-sign-defence-deals/" aria-label="Read more about US envoy gets two of three north Pacific nations to sign defence deals">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2023
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist More than 100 activist groups, including Greenpeace, Veterans for Peace, and the Arms Control Association have signed a letter calling on US President Joe Biden to apologise for nuclear tests conducted in the Marshall Islands. The letter urges Biden to deliver on promises his administration has made regarding justice ... <a title="Activists call for US apology, ‘justice’ over Marshall Islands nuclear tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/23/activists-call-for-us-apology-justice-over-marshall-islands-nuclear-tests/" aria-label="Read more about Activists call for US apology, ‘justice’ over Marshall Islands nuclear tests">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2023
A new book about one of New Zealand’s foremost peace activists offers insight into Owen Wilkes, the man described as the intellect behind New Zealand’s anti-nuclear stance. REVIEW: By Pat Baskett In the days before mobile phones and emails, there were telephone trees. They grew and spread messages like leaves, thriving on the fertile ground ... <a title="Owen Wilkes, the intellect behind New Zealand’s anti-nuclear stance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/17/owen-wilkes-the-intellect-behind-new-zealands-anti-nuclear-stance/" aria-label="Read more about Owen Wilkes, the intellect behind New Zealand’s anti-nuclear stance">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2022
Pacific Media Watch The US tested 67 nuclear weapons on the Marshall Islands, tricking the people who lived on Bikini Atoll to leave their homeland “for the good of all mankind.” But the Bikini Islanders didn’t know the US would contaminate their island and make it uninhabitable. Now nearly 70 years later, many Marshall Islanders ... <a title="Why a royal princess from the Pacific is living in Arkansas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/29/why-a-royal-princess-from-the-pacific-is-living-in-arkansas/" aria-label="Read more about Why a royal princess from the Pacific is living in Arkansas">Read more</a>
