Inside the radioactive island with mutant sharks that was used to test nuclear bombs

Might not be one for the holiday bucket list (Picture: Getty)Mutant sharks. White sand laced with plutonium. Water tainted with strontium. Hub cap-sized hermit crabs eating coconuts containing caesium. A dome ‘coffin’ crammed with radioactive material in plastic bags.The Marshall Islands, a ring of coral reefs in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, looks like the perfect place to throw on a floppy sun hat and read a book below swaying palm trees.But in the 1940s and ’50s, the US u