[madaxe_again]

He got very lucky - as not only was bumping into the Marshalls remarkable, but he didn't end up on Eniwetok/Enewetak or one of the other nuked atolls, where only radiation sickness would have greeted him.

[Retric]

It's been long enough that the most radioactive stuff is gone, the US military also did extensive cleanup 30 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enewetak_Atoll#/media/File:Run...

"The final cost of the cleanup project was $239 million."