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relocate the Bikini islanders who's homes and lives are threatened by global sea rise due to climate change.

Created by R.B. on October 27, 2015

The About 1,000 Bikini islanders have applied to relocate to the United States as rising seas threaten their adopted home.
The residents were moved from their Pacific atoll as result of atomic bomb tests in the 1940s.
But their new home, on another of the Marshall Islands, is struggling against huge tides and increasing storms.
The islanders have now asked Washington to change the terms of a trust fund to allow them settle in the US.
In 1946 several hundred islanders were moved from Bikini Atoll by the US government, which wanted to test atomic weapons on the remote atoll.
The people of Bikini came back to us and asked us to take this proposal to the US. The islanders moved to a nearby island in the Marshall chain called Kili in 1948.

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