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As a result, the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War had little impact on US nuclear policy, and the influence of the MIC and its interest in upholding military spending and output were, among others, a contributing factor to this phenomenon.7 The Nuclear MIC Versus the Public US nuclear policy fails to reflect an increasing rejection of nuclear weapons in public opinion and oppositio. [...] The Nuclear Lobby: Intertwining Interests of US Politics and the Nuclear MIC Opaque deals benefiting fiscal and electoral incentives of the defence industry and the US government form the foundation of the defence procurement process. [...] The 67 nuclear weapons tests that the United States conducted in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 remain a significant example of the effects of nuclear testing on the environment and health.45 Following the testing, the United States army dumped 90,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste in a nuclear blast crater covered with a concrete dome in the late 1970s. [...] 63 ‘Submissions, through the Secretary-General of the United Nations, to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, Pursuant to Article 76, Paragraph 8, of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982.’ United Nations, May 12, 2023. [...] As 70 % of the world’s uranium deposits are found on native lands, their extraction and exploitation in the name of ‘national defence’ points to the inherent ‘radioactive colonialism’ that stands in stark contrast to the protection of human rights and the environment.86 From the Navajo Nation in the United States to the tribal plains of Jaduguda in India, the lives of indigenous communities worldw.