Marshall Islands seek more U.S. nuclear legacy funds to settle strategic deal

By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The foreign minister of the Marshall Islands called on Thursday for more U.S. compensation over the legacy of massive U.S. nuclear testing to enable the renewal of a strategic agreement governing bilateral relations. Marshall Islanders are still plagued by health and environmental effects of 67 U.S. nuclear bomb tests from 1946 to 1958, which included "Castle Bravo" at Bikini Atoll in 1954 - the largest U.S. bomb ever detonated. Jack Ading told a U.S. congressional hearing a memorandum of understanding covering terms to extend his country's Compact of...