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The U.S. tested nuclear weapons from 1948 to 1958 on Enewetak Atoll.

For sea turtles, there are few habitats more perfect than the cool Pacific water around verdant Enewetak Atoll, halfway between Australia and Hawaii.

Later, the United States took the radioactive waste from nuclear testing in the area, reportedly added 130 tons of soil from an irradiated Nevada nuclear testing site, and buried it in a giant dome on Enewetak.

During the Trusteeship period, the United States conducted so much nuclear testing over the atolls of Bikini and Enewetak that it was akin to 1.6 Hiroshima explosions every day for a dozen years.

Just two years after the United States took control of the Marshall Islands from Imperial Japan in 1944, it began testing its new nuclear weapons here, detonating the equivalent of 7,000 Hiroshima bombs on Bikini and Enewetak atolls by 1958, causing heightened cancer rates, miscarriages and resentment that lingered long after the fallout had cleared.