Ever since, Weisgall has been representing, part time or full time, the displaced residents of the Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific, site of dozens of U.S. nuclear bomb tests from 1946 to 1958. Their land was not just taken; some of it was vaporized, and high radioactive levels to this day have kept residents from returning.
The long court battle to secure compensation for their losses ended on April 5 when the U.S. Supreme Court denied review of the Bikinians’ appeal and a related appeal by residents of a nearby atoll. But Weisgall is ready for the next phase — going to Congress to seek justice. “We exhausted the judicial branch option, but I am not exhausted at all,” said Weisgall, now 61. “The story is not over until these people are safely back on their island.”
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