Is there military on the Marshall Islands?

The RMI hosts the U.S. Army Garrison Kwajalein Atoll, including the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, a key component of the U.S. missile defense network. The United States carried out 67 nuclear tests in what is now the northern Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958.



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Twenty-four of the atolls and islands are inhabited. The remaining atolls are uninhabited due to poor living conditions, lack of rain, or nuclear contamination.

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