America's Favourite Missile Test Site is No Longer Playing Ball

Rocket Island (2009): America has tested their missiles on the Marshall Islands for decades, but the poor island residents have had enough.

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An American test warhead arcs gracefully through the sky towards Kwajalein Island, a strange but familiar sight here. But now a rift between America and the Marshallese is making the island’s' future unclear.

A Minuteman III intercontinental missile was fired 28 minutes earlier from a Californian airbase. Fortunately the re-entry vehicles splash down harmlessly in deep water in the Kwajalein Atoll. US Army Lt-Colonel Harold Buhl is pleased. ‘"In order for a weapon to be a weapon of deterrence it needs to be proven that in fact it will work.’" For 63 years the Marshall Islands has played host to American war games but in 2016 America’'s lease for 11 of the islands is up. The Marshallese say the US compensation is inadequate and their people are struggling.

Dubbed ‘The Slum of the Pacific’, 15,000 people are crammed into a narrow strip of coral and sand. ‘"We have running water 3 days a week…2,000 kids don’t go to school at all," tells Michael Kabua, an Ebeye Senator. Landowners are asking more than they'’ve been offered, and now negotiations have stalled.

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