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Science-on-Hudson Professor Emlyn Hughes, Columbia University In the 1940s and 1950s, the United States performed 67 nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands, including the detonation of the largest thermonuclear weapon (15 megatons), named Castle Bravo. Seventy years later, the impact on the Marshallese people is still apparent. The more recent challenges of rising sea levels, coupled with the remaining nuclear waste represents a particularly chilling problem. In this talk, we will discuss our recent work on this topic, as well as future plans.