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moteness favored its selection as the site of the 

 atomic bomb tests. Discovered in 1526 by a 

 Spanish sea captain, the islands were rediscovered 

 and named by the English captains Gilbert and 

 Marshall in 1788. The islands became a Japanese 

 mandate after World War I. 



