60 Years After Nuclear Tests, Marshall Islanders Still Waiting To Return Home

MEJIT ISLAND, MARSHALL ISLANDS - JANUARY 21: Daily life at the Mejit Island, where most of Rongelap atoll residents had relocated, on January 21, 2014 in Mejit Island, Marshall Islands. The U.S. conducted 67 tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands, the site of the U.S. Pacific Proving Grounds, between 1946 and 1958. In 1977, radioactive strontium-90 exceeding U.S. environmental standards was detected in well water. The following year, the U.S. Interior Department said cesium-137 levels on the atoll were so high that residents could not permanently live there. That forced the islanders to once again leave the atoll. With the 60th anniversary of the hydrogen bomb test approaching, there is still no indication of when the former residents can return. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)