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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Charlie Duffield

World's most nuclear-contaminated island where people can never return to live

A small ring of coral islands in the Pacific Ocean named Bikini Atoll remains uninhabitable to humans after it was used as a site for nuclear weapon testing.

After atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War 2, US military leaders began plotting extra nuclear weapons tests.

They landed on the remote location of Bikini Atoll - which has a land mass of just two square miles, and is part of the larger Marshall Islands chain.

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