“When we decided to leave Rongelap Atoll, the old people cried to leave their homeland. But I said, ‘What about your grandchildren? Do you want them to die?’ — Jeton Anjain on the evacuation of Rongelap Atoll in 1985, 31 years after US nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands.
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