Editing Kiritimati (section)

=== Radiation hazards ===
There is no reliable data on the environmental and public health impact of the nuclear tests conducted on the island in the late 1950s.<ref name=teebaki1993/> A 1975 study<ref>{{cite web |title=This place is the bomb |last=Wolman |first=David |date=2008-08-31 |website=Salon |url=http://www.salon.com/2008/08/31/christmas_island/ |access-date=2017-01-30 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202064059/http://www.salon.com/2008/08/31/christmas_island/ |archive-date=2 February 2017}}</ref> claimed that there was negligible radiation hazard; certainly, [[Nuclear fallout|fallout]] was successfully minimised. More recently however, a [[Massey University]] study of [[New Zealand]] found [[chromosomal translocation]]s to be increased about threefold on average in veterans who participated in the tests;<ref name=MU2008/> most of the relevant data remains classified to date.