#hibakusha — Public Fediverse posts
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Online book talk tomorrow from University of #Oslo:
In the fall of 1961, President Kennedy somberly warned Americans about deadly radioactive fallout clouds extending hundreds of miles from H‑bomb detonations, yet he approved ninety‑six US nuclear weapon tests for 1962. Since the #nuclear attacks on #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki there have been over 2,000 nuclear tests; we envision the Cold War as a period in which nuclear weapons were not used when in fact statistically there was a nuclear detonation every 8.6 days between 1950-1989. Millions of people lived downwind from those nuclear tests, and #thermonuclear tests raised radioactive fallout into the troposphere and stratosphere which eventuated in global distribution of radionuclides. Millions more lived near nuclear production sites, or accident sites like #Chernobyl and #Fukushima. These are the “global #hibakusha.”
@histodons @sts @nuclearhumanities #NuclearTest #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #BookTalk #ColdWar