Looking for Light on the Dark Side of the American Dream— Exploring the Painful Legacy of Nuclear Colonialism in Paradise
Journal: International Journal of Research in Sociology and Anthropology
Year: 2017

It is estimated that in the last thirty years over 30% of Micronesians, or some 75,000 individuals, have immigrated to Hawai'i, Guam and the United States (US) mainland in accord with the Compact of Free Association (COFA). The reasons vary but nearly always revolve around the desire for a better life-yet running beneath these individual and family migration histories is the undeniable nuclear legacy of the US military in Micronesia. From 1946 through 1958 the US dropped 109 megatons of munition