Boken Island, Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, “A 1978 photo shows the crater from an atomic test at Boken Island. Americans still shape the destiny of places like Kwajelein Atoll. Several times a year, these tiny Pacific islands witness a light show more spectacular than almost any offered by nature, when a gaggle of ballistic missiles, minus their warheads, streak in low, roaring through the night sky and hurtle into the nearby lagoon. The U.S. won control of the Marshall Islands’ 29 atolls (1,125 low-lying coral islands) from Japan in 1944 during the bitterly fought Pacific campaign.” NY Times, June 11, 2001.

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