The United States on Wednesday tested an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile with a new kind of re-entry vehicle as it seeks to modernize aging surface-to-air weapons. The missile was launched at 0830 GMT from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, soaring 4,200 miles ...
More than 200 people have been forced to flee their homes after they were inundated by freak waves in the Marshall Islands' capital, Majuro. Swells averaging 5 meters (16 feet) washed rocks and debris onto roads, temporarily cutting access to the international airport at the ...
Marshall Islanders vote in election closely watched by Washington
Voters in the Marshall Islands went to the polls Monday in a general election that will determine who will lead the Pacific island nation's negotiations with the United States on the renewal of a regional security pact. The vote comes at a time of growing ...
U.S. seeks to renew Pacific islands security pact to foil China
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday negotiations have begun with three Pacific island nations to renew a national security agreement that would help Washington counter growing Chinese influence in the region. Under the terms of the deal, known as the Compact of Free ...
Marshall Islands marches toward zero greenhouse emissions by 2050
The Marshall Islands, an atoll-nation vulnerable to sea level rise from climate change, announced steps on Monday toward an ambitious plan to cut its greenhouse emissions to zero by 2050. The Pacific country became the first small island nation to present such a strategy to ...
Occupation legacy: Marshall Islands residents use Japanese term for traditional handicrafts
The tradition is theirs, but the name is Japanese. Loretta deBrum of the Marshall Islands Visitors Authority said that before the Marshallese adapted the Japanese word "amimono" to refer to handicrafts, they used the local word "monakjen." The Japanese word came into use while Japan occupied ...
ICAN Nobel Peace Prize resonates in radiation-hit Marshall Islands
The awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons is resonating in the Marshall Islands, boosting hopes there will be no repeat of its exposure to radiation from nearly 70 U.S. nuclear tests from 1946 to 1958. "I ...
Only Fukuryu Maru got health-damaging dose from 1954 H-bomb tests, ministry claims
No other Japanese ship was exposed to health-damaging radiation from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific Ocean aside from the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, which was contaminated by fallout from one of the tests at Bikini Atoll, according to a recently ...
Citizens of nuclear-bombed Marshall Islands yearn for Obama visit
As U.S. President Barack Obama visits the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima on Friday, residents of the Marshall Islands — the Pacific nation used by the U.S. as a nuclear test site after World War II — have also begun calling for a similar visit ...
Yoshio Misaki, chief fisherman of the Japanese trawler irradiated by a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Marshall Islands in 1954, died Thursday of pneumonia at a hospital in his hometown of Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, his family said Friday. He was 90. Misaki was one ...
Fukuryu Maru H-bomb victims incensed by latest North Korean blast
Three tuna fishermen who survived radioactive fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific say they despair at the world's adherence to such weapons, days after North Korea claimed to have tested a device. "If (the bomb is) used, it is the end ...
H-bomb test survivor on nuke-free crusade
Matashichi Oishi, a victim of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, has been crusading for a world free of atomic weapons and nuclear power plants. But far from being driven by merely a hatred of nuclear weapons, Oishi's ...
