Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site' has mentioned 'United States' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| After the Second World War, the atoll's inhabitants were relocated in 1946, after which the islands and lagoon were the site of 23 nuclear tests by the United States until 1958. | WIKI |
| The United States detonated 23 nuclear devices between 1946 and 1958 at seven test sites on the reef, inside the atoll, in the air, and underwater. | WIKI |
| The United States government established several trust funds which as of 2013[update] covered medical treatment and other costs and paid about $550 annually to each individual. | WIKI |
| To allow vessels with a larger draft to enter the lagoon and to prepare for the atomic bomb testing, the United States used explosives to cut a channel through the reef and to blow up large coral heads in the lagoon. | WIKI |
| When the United States asked the islanders to relocate in 1946, 19 islanders lived elsewhere. | WIKI |
| Since then a number of descendants have moved to Majuro (the Marshall Islands' capital), other Marshall Islands, and the United States. | WIKI |
| In 1999, there were 2,600 total individuals; 1,000 islanders living on Kiji, 700 in Majuro, 275 on Ejit, 175 on other Marshall Islands or atolls, and 450 in the United States. | WIKI |
| As of March 2016, there were 5400 living Bikini islanders: 800 islanders living on Kili, 2550 on Majuro, 300 on Ejit, 350 on other Marshall Islands, and 1400 in the United States and other countries. | WIKI |
| After the Marshall Islands separated from the United States in the Compact of Free Association in 1986, its constitution established a bicameral parliament. | WIKI |
| It resulted in Spain losing many of its remaining colonies; Cuba became nominally independent while the United States took possession of Puerto Rico and Spain's Pacific colonies of the Philippines and Guam. | WIKI |
| After World War II, the United States was engaged in a Cold War Nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union to build bigger and more destructive bombs. | WIKI |
| The nuclear weapons testing at Bikini Atoll program was a series of 23 nuclear devices detonated by the United States between 1946 and 1958 at seven test sites. | WIKI |
| In February 1946, Navy Commodore Ben H. Wyatt, the military governor of the Marshall Islands, asked the 167 Micronesian inhabitants of the atoll to voluntarily and temporarily relocate so the United States government could begin testing atomic bombs for "the good of mankind and to end all world wars." | WIKI |
| In 1947, the United States convinced the United Nations to designate the islands of Micronesia a United Nations Strategic Trust Territory. | WIKI |
| [42] The directive stated that the United States should "promote the economic advancement and self-sufficiency of the inhabitants, and to this end shall... protect the inhabitants against the loss of their lands and resources..."[36] | WIKI |
| The United States opened a satellite community for the families on public land on Jaluit Atoll, 30 miles (48xc2xa0km) north. | WIKI |
| In 1975, when the islanders who had returned to Bikini Atoll learned that it wasn't safe, they sued the United States for the first time, demanding a radiological study of the northern islands. | WIKI |
| In 1975, the United States set up The Hawaiian Trust Fund for the People of Bikini, totaling $3 million. | WIKI |
| [17] On 5 March 2001, the Nuclear Claims Tribunal ruled against the United States for damages done to the islands and its people. | WIKI |
| The United States provided $150 million in compensation for damage caused by the nuclear testing program and their displacement from their home island. | WIKI |
| The United States Supreme Court turned down the islanders' appeal of the United States Court of Appeals decision that refused to compel the government to fund their claim. | WIKI |
| [13] Most of the islanders and their descendants lived on Kili, in Majuro, and in the United States. | WIKI |
| Representatives for the Bikini people expect this process to take many years and do not know whether the United States will honor the terms of the Compact of Free Association. | WIKI |
| As of 2013[update], about 4,880 Bikini people live on Kili and other Marshall Islands, and some have emigrated to the United States. | WIKI |
| The population is growing at a four-percent growth rate, so increasing numbers are taking advantage of terms in the Marshall Islands' Compact of Free Association that allow them to obtain jobs in the United States. | WIKI |
| [10] Wearing a bikini in the Marshall Islands is mainly limited to restricted-access beaches and pools like those at private resorts or on United States government facilities on Kwajalein Atoll within the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site. | WIKI |
| In the wake of World War II, in a move closely related to the beginnings of the Cold War, the United States of America decided to resume nuclear testing. | UNESCO |