Fallout from nuclear tests leads to health crisis

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Like thousands of legal migrants to Hawaii from independent Pacific nations, Henry believes the United States has a responsibility to provide health care to compensate for the radioactive fallout of 67 nuclear weapons tests from 1946 to 1958.

The nuclear testing occurred in the Marshall Islands, carrying the explosive power of 7,200 Hiroshima bombs. The residual radioactivity led to high rates of leukemia and thyroid, lung, stomach, skin and brain cancers.

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