Pacific Roundup, Palau, Marshall Is., Fiji, New Caledonia, Solomon Is., PNG

 Palau and Marshall Islands

The US is revisiting its compact of free association with Palau and Marshall Islands. The US will invest $1.6 million to investigate water quality on Enewetak Atoll for radioactivity.

Enewetak nuclear explosion.     pn524

 Nuclear testing by the US totaling more than 30 megatons of TNT took place during the cold war; in 1977–1980, a concrete dome (the Runit Dome) was built on Runit Island to deposit radioactive soil and debris. The Runit Dome is deteriorating and could be breached by a typhoon, though the sediments in the lagoon are even more radioactive than those which are contained. -- Wikipedia.

New Book by Steven Ratuva on Pacific: "Contested Terrain". Download free.

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Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2019. 

With case studies on Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands

From Clive Moore:

I have attached the Solomons chapter and the whole Bibliography, as there are no detailed references for individual chapters.

 

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