No Establishment and a Nuclear Legacy in the Marshall Islands

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

The constitution protects freedom of thought, conscience and belief and the free exercise of religion, subject only to reasonable restrictions for public order, and names no established church; government prayer rotates among whichever major denomination is present rather than favoring one by a fixed schedule. The government allocates funding to schools operated by religious organizations for secular educational purposes, distributed after the public school system's own funding needs are met, with no denomination favored over another in the allocation.

Twelve of the atolls sit at the heart of the country's Cold War legacy: Bikini and Enewetak hosted 67 US nuclear weapons tests between 1946 and 1958, and the resulting displacement and contamination claims remain a live issue in Marshallese politics, a secular grievance running alongside, and largely separate from, the country's otherwise uncontroversial religious freedom framework.