"We want to relocate to the United States. Kili [island] has been repeatedly flooded since 2012 and we've asked the Marshall Islands government for help with no response", says Nishma Jamore, mayor of Bikini Atoll.
He is currently at the helm of a community of about 1,000 islanders who have lived in exile on the small islands of Kili and Ejit in the Marshall Islands for decades.
They say that they are too fearful to ever go back to their original homeland of Bikini because it remains too radioactive for safe resettlement.
Another headache for the islanders is the increasingly heavy flooding from high tides and storms, which hit Kili and Ejit with waves which wiped out food crops.
Last month, a flood rode roughshod over Kili island's airport runway, which Jamore said looked like "the Nile River".
Despite the White House turning a blind eye to the problem, Jamore said that he is "going to Washington next month," in a bid to brief the US government on the plan for the islanders to relocate to Arkansas, Oklahoma and Hawaii.
