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- Birth nameTony Anton de Brum
- Tony de Brum was born on February 26, 1945 in Tuvalu, Pacific Ocean. He was married to Rosalie. He died on August 22, 2017 in Majuro, Marshall Islands, North Pacific Ocean.
- SpouseRosalie(? - August 22, 2017) (his death, 3 children)
- He grew up at a time when the Marshall Islands were used for 67 US nuclear bomb tests. When he was nine years old he witnessed the "Castle Bravo" detonation, while fishing with his grandfather around 280 miles away.
- He studied history and linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and received a degree in psychology.
- In 2016, the International Peace Bureau nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
- He was the Marshall Islands foreign minister and was instrumental in securing the Paris Climate Agreement. He was a champion of the rights of small island nations.
- We're suffering the result of climate change and of the nuclear legacy, and we have had nothing to do with either. In either case, people have to choose to end this world, this universe. You can either do it slowly with climate change, or you can press a button and blow it up. And neither is justified.
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