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A Pacific airfield used during the second world war.

"Since the late '60s, students from Hiroshima and Nagasaki would come to Tinian on the anniversary of those two events,"
Ms Mendiola said.

Juanita Mendiola

The crew of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay (L-R) navigator Major Theodore Van Kirk, pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets and bombardier Major Thomas Ferebee after dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945

An Australian nuclear physician

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"But what we are seeing is an intense re-militarisation of the same runway from World War II, and it's not entirely clear what the threat is,"
she said.

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