note: "The habitation of these people on the island will afford most valuable ecological radiation data on human beings." 1958: Rates of Rongelap miscarriages and stillbirths twice the rate of unexposed women. 1963: First thyroid tumors begin to appear. 1971: Independent Japanese medical team invited by Rongelap magistrate denied permission to visit by US citing "visa problems." 1976: Report finds 69% of Rongelap children who were under 10 in 1954 have developed thyroid tumors. 1984: Marshall Islands senator Jeton Anjain requests evacuation assistance from Greenpeace because the US denies the senator's requests for evacuation. 1985: Rainbow Warrior makes three trips to evacuate the Rongelap community to Majetto and Ebeye islands in Kwajalein Atoll. 1986: Nuclear test compensation approved, setting aside a $US150 million trust fund. 1989: United States Department of Energy determines Rongelap safe for habitation. 1994: Independent scientific study finds that depending on dietary restrictions, 25 to 75% of Rongelap population would exceed the 100 mrem maximum annual exposure limit set. 2000: Marshall Islands government submits Change of Circumstances petition asking for significantly more compensation than the $US150m. 2005: Bush Administration determines it has no legal responsibility to provide additional nuclear test compensation. 2007: The Nuclear Claims Tribunal awards Rongelap more than $1 billion as fair damages for its land damage claim, however, since the $US150m trust fund is almost completely depleted this compensation can never be paid. 2012: United States government (Barack Obama administration) reasserts its position that it has satisfactorily compensated Rongelap victims. The tests From 1946 through 1958 the United States military conducted numerous atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, including hydrogen bomb tests, primarily at Bikini Atoll, about from Rongelap Atoll. On March 1, 1954, the testing of the Castle Bravo hydrogen device produced an explosion that was 2½ times more powerful than predicted, and produced unexpected amounts of fallout that resulted in widespread radioactive contamination. The blast cloud contaminated more than of the surrounding Pacific Ocean including some of the then inhabited surrounding islands including Rongerik Atoll, Rongelap Atoll ( away) and Utirik Atoll. Irradiated debris fell up to deep over the island. A United States military medical team visited the island with geiger counters the day after the fallout, but left without telling the islanders of the danger they had been exposed to. Virtually all the inhabitants experienced severe radiation sickness, including itchiness, sore skin, vomiting, diarrhea, and fatigue. Their symptoms also included burning eyes