US nuclear tests in Pacific lead to migration tensions, costly health obligations for Hawaii

HONOLULU — Pius Henry fears his adopted government will kill him, that the United States won’t live up to a health care obligation to people from Pacific islands where it tested nuclear bombs.

Government blip gives away New Englanders’ Social Security numbers to Pacific Islanders

CONCORD, N.H. — When Tropical Storm Chata’an struck the Federated States of Micronesia in 2002, the U.S. government sent 1,300 blankets, 4,000 disposable diapers, 30 cases of sardines — and my Social Security number.

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