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This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here. Ariana Tibon was in college at the University of HawaiÊ»i in 2017 when she saw the photo online: a black-and-white picture of a man holding a baby. The caption said: "Nelson Anjain getting his baby monitored on March 2, 1954, by an AEC RadSafe team member on Rongelap two days after Ê»Bravo.Ê»" Advertisement Tibon had never seen the man before. But she recognized the name as her great-grandfatherÊ»s. At the time, he was living on Rongelap in the Marshall Islands when the U.S. conducted Castle Bravo,…