In 1954 , fallout from the American Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test in the Marshall Islands was such that the inhabitants of the Rongelap Atoll were forced to abandon their island . Three years later the islanders were allowed to return , but suffered abnormally high levels of cancer . They were evacuated again in 1985 and in 1996 given $ 45 million in compensation
Castle Bravo
Castle Bravo
History of Oceania