Publication - 23 May, 2005
Tony de Brum grew up in the Marshall Islands under the shadow of atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific. This is a speech he presented to the Non Proliferation Treaty review conference in 2005 about the plight of radiation victims in the Marshalls and other island nations. The Rainbow Warrior evacuated residents of the contaminated island of Rongelap in the Marshalls in 1985 to a new home, shortly before the ship was sunk by agents of the French government for her opposition to nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific.