Appalling, arrogant, irresponsible behavior by major nuclear-armed states (U.S., Britain, Russia, India, and China) who are questioning Pacific island nations' call for nuclear legacy help at UN Human Rights Council. See: reuters.com/world/major-un… cc @USUN @UnderSecT #nuclearban 1/ 
@USUN @UnderSecT From 1946 to 1958, the United States government tested 67 high-yield nuclear weapons in the atmosphere and under water in the Marshall Islands. This reckless and dangerous series of nuclear detonations caused incalculable harm to the land and people of the Marshall Islands. 2/
@USUN @UnderSecT As the 2012 report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the impact of the U.S. nuclear testing program on human rights in the Republic of the Marshall Island concluded: “The nuclear testing resulted in both immediate and continuing effects on the human rights of the Marshallese..." 3/
@USUN @UnderSecT "...radiation from the testing resulted in fatalities and in acute and long-term health complications ... [and] near-irreversible environmental contamination, leading to the loss of livelihoods and lands...many people continue to experience indefinite displacement.” 4/
@USUN @UnderSecT It is abundantly clear that the U.S. gov't hasn't fulfilled its obligations to the Marshall Islands w/respect to issues of nuclear justice, and it has a moral and legal responsibility to do so, and before the conclusion of negotiations on the new Compact of Free Association. 5/
@USUN @UnderSecT Those obligations include but are not limited to: payment of all awards of the Nuclear Claims Tribunal; providing appropriate health monitoring and health care for all Marshallese; and environmental remediation necessary to reduce exposure to radiation and other toxins. 6/
@USUN @UnderSecT In addition, the @JoeBiden administration should issue a formal apology from the United States gov't to the people of Marshall Islands for the profound and adverse health and environmental and social consequences of U.S. atmospheric nuclear testing in the Pacific. 7/
@USUN @UnderSecT @JoeBiden And just as the Clinton admin. did in 1994 thru its "Openness Initiative" relating to Cold War-era gov't human radiation experiments and n-testing effects on atomic veterans (see researchgate.net/publication/11… ) immediately declassify all docs related to U.S. testing in the Pacific. 8/8
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