Questions and answers about the island and the lab
Photo credit: Brookhaven National Lab | In 1970, Dr. Robert Conard examines a young woman's throat outside her home on Rogelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
What was Brookhaven National Laboratory's involvement in the Marshall Islands?
From 1954 through 1998, medical doctors from BNL were in charge of the care of hundreds of residents of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific. Within this group were more than 200 residents of the island of Rongelap and other atolls who had been exposed to the radioactive fallout from the largest nuclear...
