NEWARK, N.J., Oct. 14 -- New Jersey Institute of Technology issued the following news release:
Less than nine years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States detonated a nuclear weapon roughly 1,000 times more powerful roughly 2,600 miles away, in the Marshall Islands.
The March 1, 1954, Castle Bravo blast at Bikini Atoll - the largest nuclear detonation in U.S. history - sent radioactive fallout across inhabited Marshallese islands, even reaching a Japanese fishing vessel about 80 miles away.
While radioactive fallout spread in hours, the legal and political fallout unfolded over decades.
NJIT historian Mary Mitchell has cast fresh light on that history in her new book,Unsettling Sovereignty, recounting how Marshall Isla...