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Das Dada Tarot
<Das Bikini Atoll>The Dada Tarot
<The Bikini Atoll>Idea Writing Command AI Realisation
Meister Jeder, Dadaist, Realistiker 4/26
#dada #Tarot #BikiniAtoll
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Nuclear “tests” are best conceptualized as environmental disasters with consequences that are still felt today, particularly in Oceania and Central Asia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/17/world/nuclear-test-legacy-in-asia-pacific/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #nuclearweapons #partialtestbantreaty #asiapacific #bikiniatoll #frenchpolynesia #daigofukuryumaru #oceania
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2025 #UraniumFilmFestival - IN EXILE
USA, 2023, Director: Nathan Fitch, Producer: Angela Edward, Documentary, English, 12 min.
"In Exile explores the US nuclear legacy in the Pacific through the lens of members of the #Marshallese community in Arkansas. The Marshallese were told their islands in Micronesia were essential for the good of mankind for #OperationCrossroads, a series of nuclear tests in #BikiniAtoll commencing in 1946. In a highly choreographed scene photographed by an array of military cameras, the Marshallese begin the process of leaving their home islands for an exile that has now lasted 77 years. They could not know that their islands would be #vaporized, their waters #poisoned, and their bodies used as test subjects by the US government."
Full documentary:
https://www.pbs.org/video/in-exile-p2nnza/FMI:
https://www.nathan-fitch.com/#InExile #AtomicBomb #AtomicBombTesting #MarshallIslands #NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearWar #CulturalGenocide #InternationalUraniumFilmFestival
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Recensie: Bikini Atoll – Moratoria
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #359: The Bikini.
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#bikini #bikiniatoll #culture #history #islands #beachwear #swimwear #funfacts #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
All 23 crew members on board the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 while it was about 160 kilometers from the 1954 test site were exposed to radioactive fallout, and the boat's 40-year-old chief radio operator died six months later. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/22/japan/society/japan-tuna-port-remembers-1954-bikini-atoll-nuclear-test/ #japan #society #nuclearweapons #bikiniatoll #kanagawa #misaki #fishing #radiation
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August 2023 - Seascape: the state of our oceans
Endless fallout: the Pacific idyll still facing nuclear blight 77 years on
The film Oppenheimer has shone a global spotlight on the dawn of US nuclear weapons tests. In the #MarshallIslands, where 23 of those earth-shattering blasts happened, people have never been able to forget
by Lucy Sherriff
Fri 25 Aug 2023 03.00 EDT"At first glance, the aquamarine waters that surround the Marshall Islands seem like paradise. But this idyllic #Pacific scene hides a dark secret: it was the location of 67 #nuclear detonations as part of US military tests during the #ColdWar between 1946 and 1958.
"The bombs were exploded above ground and underwater on Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, including one device 1,100 times larger than the Hiroshima atom bomb. Chernobyl-like levels of radiation forced hundreds from their homes. #BikiniAtoll remains deserted. At the US government’s urging, residents have begun returning slowly to #Enewetak.
"Today, there is little visible evidence of the tests on the islands except for a 115-metre (377ft)-wide cement dome that locals nickname the Tomb – for good reason.
"Built in the late 1970s and now aged and cracking, the huge concrete lid on #RunitIsland covers more than 90,000 cubic metres (3.1m cubic ft) – or roughly 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools – of radioactive soil and nuclear waste. Unbeknown to the #Marshallese people, the US shipped the waste from #Nevada, where it was testing nuclear weapons on #NativeAmerican land.
"The legacy of America’s nuclear testing on #IndigenousCommunities both on the US mainland and its territories has come under renewed scrutiny with the release of Oppenheimer, the blockbuster film about the physicist who led development of the atomic bomb.
"Although his team tested the nuclear weapons on Native American land – there were 928 large-scale nuclear weapons tests in #Nevada, #Utah and #Arizona during the cold war, dispersing huge clouds of radioactive material – the film never mentions the impact of the testing on the local Native Americans.
"'The film completely ignores the experiences of our people,' says #IanZabarte, principal man of the Western Bands of the #ShoshoneNation – who have been described as 'the most bombed nation on earth'.
"Zabarte is attempting to forge connections with those Pacific Islanders who were similarly affected by #NuclearTesting. Earlier this year, he met representatives from the Marshall Islands when they visited Nevada to discuss the effects on their health from nuclear weapons testing.
“'The health impacts on our people have never been investigated,' Zabarte says. 'We have never received an apology, let alone any kind of compensation.'
"Separately, a band of Marshallese activists are now sailing around the country’s 29 atolls, along with #Artists and #ClimateScientists, on a 12-day tour that aims to raise awareness of nuclear testing on the archipelago.
"The 520-mile ocean voyage is being operated by Cape Farewell, a cultural programme founded by the British artist David Buckland and funded by the Waverley Street Foundation, Laurene Powell Jobs’s climate charity.
"'Cancers continue from generation to generation,' says Alson Kelen, a master navigator and community elder who grew up on Bikini Atoll and is joining the expedition.
"'If you ask anyone here if there’s a legacy of nuclear impact on their health, the answer would be yes. The Marshall Islands Nuclear Claim Tribunal has a list of #cancers that are related to nuclear throughout our people. These cancers are hereditary.'
"The US maintains that the Marshall Islands are safe. It seized them from #Japan in 1944, and eventually granted the islands independence in 1979, but the fledgling nation remained in 'free association' with the US. Under this system, along with #Micronesia and #Palau, the Marshall Islands are self-governing but economically remain largely dependent on Washington, which also retains a military presence. Today it continues to use the US dollar, and American aid still represents a large percentage of its GDP.
"In 1988, an independent international tribunal was established to adjudicate between the two countries, and it later ordered the US to pay $2.3bn (£1.8bn) to the Marshall Islands in healthcare and resettlement costs.
"The US government has refused, arguing that its liabilities ended when it paid $600m in the 1990s. In 1998, the US stopped providing medical care for cancer-stricken islanders, leaving many in financial hardship."
#NuclearWasteDome #ClimateChange #SeaLevelRise #WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalRacism
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August 2023 - Seascape: the state of our oceans
Endless fallout: the Pacific idyll still facing nuclear blight 77 years on
The film Oppenheimer has shone a global spotlight on the dawn of US nuclear weapons tests. In the #MarshallIslands, where 23 of those earth-shattering blasts happened, people have never been able to forget
by Lucy Sherriff
Fri 25 Aug 2023 03.00 EDT"At first glance, the aquamarine waters that surround the Marshall Islands seem like paradise. But this idyllic #Pacific scene hides a dark secret: it was the location of 67 #nuclear detonations as part of US military tests during the #ColdWar between 1946 and 1958.
"The bombs were exploded above ground and underwater on Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, including one device 1,100 times larger than the Hiroshima atom bomb. Chernobyl-like levels of radiation forced hundreds from their homes. #BikiniAtoll remains deserted. At the US government’s urging, residents have begun returning slowly to #Enewetak.
"Today, there is little visible evidence of the tests on the islands except for a 115-metre (377ft)-wide cement dome that locals nickname the Tomb – for good reason.
"Built in the late 1970s and now aged and cracking, the huge concrete lid on #RunitIsland covers more than 90,000 cubic metres (3.1m cubic ft) – or roughly 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools – of radioactive soil and nuclear waste. Unbeknown to the #Marshallese people, the US shipped the waste from #Nevada, where it was testing nuclear weapons on #NativeAmerican land.
"The legacy of America’s nuclear testing on #IndigenousCommunities both on the US mainland and its territories has come under renewed scrutiny with the release of Oppenheimer, the blockbuster film about the physicist who led development of the atomic bomb.
"Although his team tested the nuclear weapons on Native American land – there were 928 large-scale nuclear weapons tests in #Nevada, #Utah and #Arizona during the cold war, dispersing huge clouds of radioactive material – the film never mentions the impact of the testing on the local Native Americans.
"'The film completely ignores the experiences of our people,' says #IanZabarte, principal man of the Western Bands of the #ShoshoneNation – who have been described as 'the most bombed nation on earth'.
"Zabarte is attempting to forge connections with those Pacific Islanders who were similarly affected by #NuclearTesting. Earlier this year, he met representatives from the Marshall Islands when they visited Nevada to discuss the effects on their health from nuclear weapons testing.
“'The health impacts on our people have never been investigated,' Zabarte says. 'We have never received an apology, let alone any kind of compensation.'
"Separately, a band of Marshallese activists are now sailing around the country’s 29 atolls, along with #Artists and #ClimateScientists, on a 12-day tour that aims to raise awareness of nuclear testing on the archipelago.
"The 520-mile ocean voyage is being operated by Cape Farewell, a cultural programme founded by the British artist David Buckland and funded by the Waverley Street Foundation, Laurene Powell Jobs’s climate charity.
"'Cancers continue from generation to generation,' says Alson Kelen, a master navigator and community elder who grew up on Bikini Atoll and is joining the expedition.
"'If you ask anyone here if there’s a legacy of nuclear impact on their health, the answer would be yes. The Marshall Islands Nuclear Claim Tribunal has a list of #cancers that are related to nuclear throughout our people. These cancers are hereditary.'
"The US maintains that the Marshall Islands are safe. It seized them from #Japan in 1944, and eventually granted the islands independence in 1979, but the fledgling nation remained in 'free association' with the US. Under this system, along with #Micronesia and #Palau, the Marshall Islands are self-governing but economically remain largely dependent on Washington, which also retains a military presence. Today it continues to use the US dollar, and American aid still represents a large percentage of its GDP.
"In 1988, an independent international tribunal was established to adjudicate between the two countries, and it later ordered the US to pay $2.3bn (£1.8bn) to the Marshall Islands in healthcare and resettlement costs.
"The US government has refused, arguing that its liabilities ended when it paid $600m in the 1990s. In 1998, the US stopped providing medical care for cancer-stricken islanders, leaving many in financial hardship."
#NuclearWasteDome #ClimateChange #SeaLevelRise #WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalRacism
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August 2023 - Seascape: the state of our oceans
Endless fallout: the Pacific idyll still facing nuclear blight 77 years on
The film Oppenheimer has shone a global spotlight on the dawn of US nuclear weapons tests. In the #MarshallIslands, where 23 of those earth-shattering blasts happened, people have never been able to forget
by Lucy Sherriff
Fri 25 Aug 2023 03.00 EDT"At first glance, the aquamarine waters that surround the Marshall Islands seem like paradise. But this idyllic #Pacific scene hides a dark secret: it was the location of 67 #nuclear detonations as part of US military tests during the #ColdWar between 1946 and 1958.
"The bombs were exploded above ground and underwater on Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, including one device 1,100 times larger than the Hiroshima atom bomb. Chernobyl-like levels of radiation forced hundreds from their homes. #BikiniAtoll remains deserted. At the US government’s urging, residents have begun returning slowly to #Enewetak.
"Today, there is little visible evidence of the tests on the islands except for a 115-metre (377ft)-wide cement dome that locals nickname the Tomb – for good reason.
"Built in the late 1970s and now aged and cracking, the huge concrete lid on #RunitIsland covers more than 90,000 cubic metres (3.1m cubic ft) – or roughly 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools – of radioactive soil and nuclear waste. Unbeknown to the #Marshallese people, the US shipped the waste from #Nevada, where it was testing nuclear weapons on #NativeAmerican land.
"The legacy of America’s nuclear testing on #IndigenousCommunities both on the US mainland and its territories has come under renewed scrutiny with the release of Oppenheimer, the blockbuster film about the physicist who led development of the atomic bomb.
"Although his team tested the nuclear weapons on Native American land – there were 928 large-scale nuclear weapons tests in #Nevada, #Utah and #Arizona during the cold war, dispersing huge clouds of radioactive material – the film never mentions the impact of the testing on the local Native Americans.
"'The film completely ignores the experiences of our people,' says #IanZabarte, principal man of the Western Bands of the #ShoshoneNation – who have been described as 'the most bombed nation on earth'.
"Zabarte is attempting to forge connections with those Pacific Islanders who were similarly affected by #NuclearTesting. Earlier this year, he met representatives from the Marshall Islands when they visited Nevada to discuss the effects on their health from nuclear weapons testing.
“'The health impacts on our people have never been investigated,' Zabarte says. 'We have never received an apology, let alone any kind of compensation.'
"Separately, a band of Marshallese activists are now sailing around the country’s 29 atolls, along with #Artists and #ClimateScientists, on a 12-day tour that aims to raise awareness of nuclear testing on the archipelago.
"The 520-mile ocean voyage is being operated by Cape Farewell, a cultural programme founded by the British artist David Buckland and funded by the Waverley Street Foundation, Laurene Powell Jobs’s climate charity.
"'Cancers continue from generation to generation,' says Alson Kelen, a master navigator and community elder who grew up on Bikini Atoll and is joining the expedition.
"'If you ask anyone here if there’s a legacy of nuclear impact on their health, the answer would be yes. The Marshall Islands Nuclear Claim Tribunal has a list of #cancers that are related to nuclear throughout our people. These cancers are hereditary.'
"The US maintains that the Marshall Islands are safe. It seized them from #Japan in 1944, and eventually granted the islands independence in 1979, but the fledgling nation remained in 'free association' with the US. Under this system, along with #Micronesia and #Palau, the Marshall Islands are self-governing but economically remain largely dependent on Washington, which also retains a military presence. Today it continues to use the US dollar, and American aid still represents a large percentage of its GDP.
"In 1988, an independent international tribunal was established to adjudicate between the two countries, and it later ordered the US to pay $2.3bn (£1.8bn) to the Marshall Islands in healthcare and resettlement costs.
"The US government has refused, arguing that its liabilities ended when it paid $600m in the 1990s. In 1998, the US stopped providing medical care for cancer-stricken islanders, leaving many in financial hardship."
#NuclearWasteDome #ClimateChange #SeaLevelRise #WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalRacism
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August 2023 - Seascape: the state of our oceans
Endless fallout: the Pacific idyll still facing nuclear blight 77 years on
The film Oppenheimer has shone a global spotlight on the dawn of US nuclear weapons tests. In the #MarshallIslands, where 23 of those earth-shattering blasts happened, people have never been able to forget
by Lucy Sherriff
Fri 25 Aug 2023 03.00 EDT"At first glance, the aquamarine waters that surround the Marshall Islands seem like paradise. But this idyllic #Pacific scene hides a dark secret: it was the location of 67 #nuclear detonations as part of US military tests during the #ColdWar between 1946 and 1958.
"The bombs were exploded above ground and underwater on Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, including one device 1,100 times larger than the Hiroshima atom bomb. Chernobyl-like levels of radiation forced hundreds from their homes. #BikiniAtoll remains deserted. At the US government’s urging, residents have begun returning slowly to #Enewetak.
"Today, there is little visible evidence of the tests on the islands except for a 115-metre (377ft)-wide cement dome that locals nickname the Tomb – for good reason.
"Built in the late 1970s and now aged and cracking, the huge concrete lid on #RunitIsland covers more than 90,000 cubic metres (3.1m cubic ft) – or roughly 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools – of radioactive soil and nuclear waste. Unbeknown to the #Marshallese people, the US shipped the waste from #Nevada, where it was testing nuclear weapons on #NativeAmerican land.
"The legacy of America’s nuclear testing on #IndigenousCommunities both on the US mainland and its territories has come under renewed scrutiny with the release of Oppenheimer, the blockbuster film about the physicist who led development of the atomic bomb.
"Although his team tested the nuclear weapons on Native American land – there were 928 large-scale nuclear weapons tests in #Nevada, #Utah and #Arizona during the cold war, dispersing huge clouds of radioactive material – the film never mentions the impact of the testing on the local Native Americans.
"'The film completely ignores the experiences of our people,' says #IanZabarte, principal man of the Western Bands of the #ShoshoneNation – who have been described as 'the most bombed nation on earth'.
"Zabarte is attempting to forge connections with those Pacific Islanders who were similarly affected by #NuclearTesting. Earlier this year, he met representatives from the Marshall Islands when they visited Nevada to discuss the effects on their health from nuclear weapons testing.
“'The health impacts on our people have never been investigated,' Zabarte says. 'We have never received an apology, let alone any kind of compensation.'
"Separately, a band of Marshallese activists are now sailing around the country’s 29 atolls, along with #Artists and #ClimateScientists, on a 12-day tour that aims to raise awareness of nuclear testing on the archipelago.
"The 520-mile ocean voyage is being operated by Cape Farewell, a cultural programme founded by the British artist David Buckland and funded by the Waverley Street Foundation, Laurene Powell Jobs’s climate charity.
"'Cancers continue from generation to generation,' says Alson Kelen, a master navigator and community elder who grew up on Bikini Atoll and is joining the expedition.
"'If you ask anyone here if there’s a legacy of nuclear impact on their health, the answer would be yes. The Marshall Islands Nuclear Claim Tribunal has a list of #cancers that are related to nuclear throughout our people. These cancers are hereditary.'
"The US maintains that the Marshall Islands are safe. It seized them from #Japan in 1944, and eventually granted the islands independence in 1979, but the fledgling nation remained in 'free association' with the US. Under this system, along with #Micronesia and #Palau, the Marshall Islands are self-governing but economically remain largely dependent on Washington, which also retains a military presence. Today it continues to use the US dollar, and American aid still represents a large percentage of its GDP.
"In 1988, an independent international tribunal was established to adjudicate between the two countries, and it later ordered the US to pay $2.3bn (£1.8bn) to the Marshall Islands in healthcare and resettlement costs.
"The US government has refused, arguing that its liabilities ended when it paid $600m in the 1990s. In 1998, the US stopped providing medical care for cancer-stricken islanders, leaving many in financial hardship."
#NuclearWasteDome #ClimateChange #SeaLevelRise #WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalRacism
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August 2023 - Seascape: the state of our oceans
Endless fallout: the Pacific idyll still facing nuclear blight 77 years on
The film Oppenheimer has shone a global spotlight on the dawn of US nuclear weapons tests. In the #MarshallIslands, where 23 of those earth-shattering blasts happened, people have never been able to forget
by Lucy Sherriff
Fri 25 Aug 2023 03.00 EDT"At first glance, the aquamarine waters that surround the Marshall Islands seem like paradise. But this idyllic #Pacific scene hides a dark secret: it was the location of 67 #nuclear detonations as part of US military tests during the #ColdWar between 1946 and 1958.
"The bombs were exploded above ground and underwater on Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, including one device 1,100 times larger than the Hiroshima atom bomb. Chernobyl-like levels of radiation forced hundreds from their homes. #BikiniAtoll remains deserted. At the US government’s urging, residents have begun returning slowly to #Enewetak.
"Today, there is little visible evidence of the tests on the islands except for a 115-metre (377ft)-wide cement dome that locals nickname the Tomb – for good reason.
"Built in the late 1970s and now aged and cracking, the huge concrete lid on #RunitIsland covers more than 90,000 cubic metres (3.1m cubic ft) – or roughly 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools – of radioactive soil and nuclear waste. Unbeknown to the #Marshallese people, the US shipped the waste from #Nevada, where it was testing nuclear weapons on #NativeAmerican land.
"The legacy of America’s nuclear testing on #IndigenousCommunities both on the US mainland and its territories has come under renewed scrutiny with the release of Oppenheimer, the blockbuster film about the physicist who led development of the atomic bomb.
"Although his team tested the nuclear weapons on Native American land – there were 928 large-scale nuclear weapons tests in #Nevada, #Utah and #Arizona during the cold war, dispersing huge clouds of radioactive material – the film never mentions the impact of the testing on the local Native Americans.
"'The film completely ignores the experiences of our people,' says #IanZabarte, principal man of the Western Bands of the #ShoshoneNation – who have been described as 'the most bombed nation on earth'.
"Zabarte is attempting to forge connections with those Pacific Islanders who were similarly affected by #NuclearTesting. Earlier this year, he met representatives from the Marshall Islands when they visited Nevada to discuss the effects on their health from nuclear weapons testing.
“'The health impacts on our people have never been investigated,' Zabarte says. 'We have never received an apology, let alone any kind of compensation.'
"Separately, a band of Marshallese activists are now sailing around the country’s 29 atolls, along with #Artists and #ClimateScientists, on a 12-day tour that aims to raise awareness of nuclear testing on the archipelago.
"The 520-mile ocean voyage is being operated by Cape Farewell, a cultural programme founded by the British artist David Buckland and funded by the Waverley Street Foundation, Laurene Powell Jobs’s climate charity.
"'Cancers continue from generation to generation,' says Alson Kelen, a master navigator and community elder who grew up on Bikini Atoll and is joining the expedition.
"'If you ask anyone here if there’s a legacy of nuclear impact on their health, the answer would be yes. The Marshall Islands Nuclear Claim Tribunal has a list of #cancers that are related to nuclear throughout our people. These cancers are hereditary.'
"The US maintains that the Marshall Islands are safe. It seized them from #Japan in 1944, and eventually granted the islands independence in 1979, but the fledgling nation remained in 'free association' with the US. Under this system, along with #Micronesia and #Palau, the Marshall Islands are self-governing but economically remain largely dependent on Washington, which also retains a military presence. Today it continues to use the US dollar, and American aid still represents a large percentage of its GDP.
"In 1988, an independent international tribunal was established to adjudicate between the two countries, and it later ordered the US to pay $2.3bn (£1.8bn) to the Marshall Islands in healthcare and resettlement costs.
"The US government has refused, arguing that its liabilities ended when it paid $600m in the 1990s. In 1998, the US stopped providing medical care for cancer-stricken islanders, leaving many in financial hardship."
#NuclearWasteDome #ClimateChange #SeaLevelRise #WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalRacism
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“Sunken Radioactive WWII Ship Rediscovered In Ocean Near Farallon Islands”
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#Farallon #OperationCrossroads #BikiniAtoll #RMI #nuclear #ColdWar #HuntersPoint #SF #NuclearTesting
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“Sunken Radioactive WWII Ship Rediscovered In Ocean Near Farallon Islands”
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#Farallon #OperationCrossroads #BikiniAtoll #RMI #nuclear #ColdWar #HuntersPoint #SF #NuclearTesting
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“Sunken Radioactive WWII Ship Rediscovered In Ocean Near Farallon Islands”
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#Farallon #OperationCrossroads #BikiniAtoll #RMI #nuclear #ColdWar #HuntersPoint #SF #NuclearTesting
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“Sunken Radioactive WWII Ship Rediscovered In Ocean Near Farallon Islands”
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#Farallon #OperationCrossroads #BikiniAtoll #RMI #nuclear #ColdWar #HuntersPoint #SF #NuclearTesting
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“Sunken Radioactive WWII Ship Rediscovered In Ocean Near Farallon Islands”
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#Farallon #OperationCrossroads #BikiniAtoll #RMI #nuclear #ColdWar #HuntersPoint #SF #NuclearTesting
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Most of this material is from attempts to “decontaminate" ships irradiated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. You may have seen images of the navy ships beneath the low hanging mushroom cloud. The US Navy towed many of these ships to the Bay Area and one by one tried to decontaminate them at Hunter's Point. They failed to decontaminate them, but succeeded in contaminating the shipyard.
They later sunk the irradiated ships at the #Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco, which is now the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
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Most of this material is from attempts to “decontaminate" ships irradiated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. You may have seen images of the navy ships beneath the low hanging mushroom cloud. The US Navy towed many of these ships to the Bay Area and one by one tried to decontaminate them at Hunter's Point. They failed to decontaminate them, but succeeded in contaminating the shipyard.
They later sunk the irradiated ships at the #Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco, which is now the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
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Most of this material is from attempts to “decontaminate" ships irradiated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. You may have seen images of the navy ships beneath the low hanging mushroom cloud. The US Navy towed many of these ships to the Bay Area and one by one tried to decontaminate them at Hunter's Point. They failed to decontaminate them, but succeeded in contaminating the shipyard.
They later sunk the irradiated ships at the #Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco, which is now the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
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Most of this material is from attempts to “decontaminate" ships irradiated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. You may have seen images of the navy ships beneath the low hanging mushroom cloud. The US Navy towed many of these ships to the Bay Area and one by one tried to decontaminate them at Hunter's Point. They failed to decontaminate them, but succeeded in contaminating the shipyard.
They later sunk the irradiated ships at the #Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco, which is now the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
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Most of this material is from attempts to “decontaminate" ships irradiated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. You may have seen images of the navy ships beneath the low hanging mushroom cloud. The US Navy towed many of these ships to the Bay Area and one by one tried to decontaminate them at Hunter's Point. They failed to decontaminate them, but succeeded in contaminating the shipyard.
They later sunk the irradiated ships at the #Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco, which is now the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
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@clacke When those powers combine #bikiniatoll
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Castle Bravo (1 Mar 1954) was the first hydrogen bomb exploded atmospherically at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The fallout cloud (that they said they couldn't predict) irradiated four atolls inhabited by Marshall Islanders. They knew. It was a deliberate attempt to study the effects of irradiation across several generations. The US govt has always maintained that it was an accident, but given the perfect case study they managed to cobble together it is clear they experimented on the islanders.
#Bravo #nuclear #NuclearTesting #IrradiatedPeoples #STS #BikiniAtoll #MarshallIslands #RMI
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This article is a complete hatchet job.
"$59 Million, Gone: How Bikini Atoll Leaders Blew Through U.S. Trust Fund"
Lines like this: "Recognizing the damage its testing caused, the U.S. government established two trust funds in the 1980s to help pay for Bikinians’ health care, build housing and cover living costs."
Clearly there are problems, and many are tied to post-colonial social disruptions along with permanently irradiated homelands, but this article is an example of victim blaming.
#RMI #nuclear #NuclearTesting #BikiniAtoll #colonialism @histodons @nuclearhumanities
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Did you know that there were #IndigenousPeoples on #BikiniAtoll that were displaced/relocated prior to the nuclear testing?
Also many were just moved to other nearby atolls where the radiation could still reach. 😡🤷♀️🤦♀️
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Bewohner wurden zu Versuchskaninchen
Atombomben sind leider doch Realität
Mehr dazu bei https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Atomtests-im-Pazifik-Noch-immer-verstrahlt-7179928.html
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