Tempo: ‘Forgotten islanders’ advocate

By Journal on March 22, 2018 Ailuk, Bikini, Bravo Nuclear Test, Meisei University, Nuclear Survivor, Outrigger, Rongelap, Seiichiro Takemine, Tempo Alfed, Utrik News Archive

SEIICHIRO TAKEMINE Ailuk islander Tempo Alfred, 77, died in Majuro earlier this month. One of a dwindling number of elder Marshallese survivors of the US nuclear weapons testing program, Tempo was born on Ailuk. As a 13-year-old boy, he was an eyewitness to the March 1, 1954 Bravo hydrogen bomb test. He remembered a flash […]