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  1. “A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole”*…

    Larger version here

    … Well, our earth is riddled with them. And as our old friend Randall Munroe at xkcd reminds us, some of them are very deep…

    Holes

    Via Jason Kottke, who reminds us that “Explain xkcd has more info on each of the various holes, including the truly bonkers Cave of Crystals in Mexico” (and explanatory background on other xkcd posts as well…)

    Plautus

    ###

    As we spelunk, we might recall that it was on this date in 1962 that the U.S. military detonated Little Feller I, a tactical nuclear weapon at the Nevada Test Site as part of Operation Sunbeam. It was the last near-ground atmospheric nuclear detonation conducted by the United States. The high-altitude Fishbowl tests concluded in November of1962 with a detonation at around 69,000 feet altitude. Thereafter, in accordance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, tests were conducted underground… more holes.

    https://youtu.be/eiM-RzPHyGs?si=tLLvcvNcta2JPKFN

    #atomicTest #atomicTests #boreHoles #caves #culture #geography #history #holes #kottke #LittleFellerI #mines #Nature #nuclearArms #nuclearTest #nuclearTests #partialTestBanTreaty #Technology #testBanTreaty #trenches #xkcd
  2. “A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole”*…

    Larger version here

    … Well, our earth is riddled with them. And as our old friend Randall Munroe at xkcd reminds us, some of them are very deep…

    Holes

    Via Jason Kottke, who reminds us that “Explain xkcd has more info on each of the various holes, including the truly bonkers Cave of Crystals in Mexico” (and explanatory background on other xkcd posts as well…)

    Plautus

    ###

    As we spelunk, we might recall that it was on this date in 1962 that the U.S. military detonated Little Feller I, a tactical nuclear weapon at the Nevada Test Site as part of Operation Sunbeam. It was the last near-ground atmospheric nuclear detonation conducted by the United States. The high-altitude Fishbowl tests concluded in November of1962 with a detonation at around 69,000 feet altitude. Thereafter, in accordance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, tests were conducted underground… more holes.

    https://youtu.be/eiM-RzPHyGs?si=tLLvcvNcta2JPKFN

    #atomicTest #atomicTests #boreHoles #caves #culture #geography #history #holes #kottke #LittleFellerI #mines #Nature #nuclearArms #nuclearTest #nuclearTests #partialTestBanTreaty #Technology #testBanTreaty #trenches #xkcd
  3. “A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole”*…

    Larger version here

    … Well, our earth is riddled with them. And as our old friend Randall Munroe at xkcd reminds us, some of them are very deep…

    Holes

    Via Jason Kottke, who reminds us that “Explain xkcd has more info on each of the various holes, including the truly bonkers Cave of Crystals in Mexico” (and explanatory background on other xkcd posts as well…)

    Plautus

    ###

    As we spelunk, we might recall that it was on this date in 1962 that the U.S. military detonated Little Feller I, a tactical nuclear weapon at the Nevada Test Site as part of Operation Sunbeam. It was the last near-ground atmospheric nuclear detonation conducted by the United States. The high-altitude Fishbowl tests concluded in November of1962 with a detonation at around 69,000 feet altitude. Thereafter, in accordance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, tests were conducted underground… more holes.

    https://youtu.be/eiM-RzPHyGs?si=tLLvcvNcta2JPKFN

    #atomicTest #atomicTests #boreHoles #caves #culture #geography #history #holes #kottke #LittleFellerI #mines #Nature #nuclearArms #nuclearTest #nuclearTests #partialTestBanTreaty #Technology #testBanTreaty #trenches #xkcd
  4. “A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole”*…

    Larger version here

    … Well, our earth is riddled with them. And as our old friend Randall Munroe at xkcd reminds us, some of them are very deep…

    Holes

    Via Jason Kottke, who reminds us that “Explain xkcd has more info on each of the various holes, including the truly bonkers Cave of Crystals in Mexico” (and explanatory background on other xkcd posts as well…)

    Plautus

    ###

    As we spelunk, we might recall that it was on this date in 1962 that the U.S. military detonated Little Feller I, a tactical nuclear weapon at the Nevada Test Site as part of Operation Sunbeam. It was the last near-ground atmospheric nuclear detonation conducted by the United States. The high-altitude Fishbowl tests concluded in November of1962 with a detonation at around 69,000 feet altitude. Thereafter, in accordance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, tests were conducted underground… more holes.

    https://youtu.be/eiM-RzPHyGs?si=tLLvcvNcta2JPKFN

    #atomicTest #atomicTests #boreHoles #caves #culture #geography #history #holes #kottke #LittleFellerI #mines #Nature #nuclearArms #nuclearTest #nuclearTests #partialTestBanTreaty #Technology #testBanTreaty #trenches #xkcd
  5. “A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole”*…

    Larger version here

    … Well, our earth is riddled with them. And as our old friend Randall Munroe at xkcd reminds us, some of them are very deep…

    Holes

    Via Jason Kottke, who reminds us that “Explain xkcd has more info on each of the various holes, including the truly bonkers Cave of Crystals in Mexico” (and explanatory background on other xkcd posts as well…)

    Plautus

    ###

    As we spelunk, we might recall that it was on this date in 1962 that the U.S. military detonated Little Feller I, a tactical nuclear weapon at the Nevada Test Site as part of Operation Sunbeam. It was the last near-ground atmospheric nuclear detonation conducted by the United States. The high-altitude Fishbowl tests concluded in November of1962 with a detonation at around 69,000 feet altitude. Thereafter, in accordance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, tests were conducted underground… more holes.

    https://youtu.be/eiM-RzPHyGs?si=tLLvcvNcta2JPKFN

    #atomicTest #atomicTests #boreHoles #caves #culture #geography #history #holes #kottke #LittleFellerI #mines #Nature #nuclearArms #nuclearTest #nuclearTests #partialTestBanTreaty #Technology #testBanTreaty #trenches #xkcd
  6. 4/
    The goal was to see if this "plasma shield" could:

    Blind Soviet Radar: Making it impossible for them to track incoming missiles.

    Fry Enemy Electronics: The radiation belt could potentially "cook" the guidance systems of incoming Soviet warheads.

    The project was so secret that the public didn't find out about it until the New York Times broke the story a year later in 1959.

    youtu.be/Pt6n-boPBNg

    #NuclearTests
    #OperationArgus
    #US
    #history

  7. 4/
    The goal was to see if this "plasma shield" could:

    Blind Soviet Radar: Making it impossible for them to track incoming missiles.

    Fry Enemy Electronics: The radiation belt could potentially "cook" the guidance systems of incoming Soviet warheads.

    The project was so secret that the public didn't find out about it until the New York Times broke the story a year later in 1959.

    youtu.be/Pt6n-boPBNg

    #NuclearTests
    #OperationArgus
    #US
    #history

  8. 3/
    The experiment was based on a theory by a Greek physicist named Nicholas Christofilos. He predicted that a nuclear explosion in space would create an artificial Van Allen radiation belt.

    He was right. The explosions created a shell of high-energy electrons that wrapped around the entire planet for several weeks.

    youtu.be/Pt6n-boPBNg

    #NuclearTests
    #OperationArgus
    #US
    #history

  9. 3/
    The experiment was based on a theory by a Greek physicist named Nicholas Christofilos. He predicted that a nuclear explosion in space would create an artificial Van Allen radiation belt.

    He was right. The explosions created a shell of high-energy electrons that wrapped around the entire planet for several weeks.

    youtu.be/Pt6n-boPBNg

    #NuclearTests
    #OperationArgus
    #US
    #history

  10. 2/
    The Actual Stats:

    The Weapons: They launched three modified X-17A missiles, each carrying a 1.7-kiloton W-25 nuclear warhead.

    The Altitudes: These weren't just "high altitude" shots; they were true space shots. The detonations occurred at:

    Argus I: 100 miles (approx. 161 km)

    Argus II: 182 miles (approx. 293 km)

    Argus III: 466 miles (approx. 750 km)—deep into the exosphere.

    youtu.be/Pt6n-boPBNg

    #NuclearTests
    #OperationArgus
    #US
    #history

  11. 2/
    The Actual Stats:

    The Weapons: They launched three modified X-17A missiles, each carrying a 1.7-kiloton W-25 nuclear warhead.

    The Altitudes: These weren't just "high altitude" shots; they were true space shots. The detonations occurred at:

    Argus I: 100 miles (approx. 161 km)

    Argus II: 182 miles (approx. 293 km)

    Argus III: 466 miles (approx. 750 km)—deep into the exosphere.

    youtu.be/Pt6n-boPBNg

    #NuclearTests
    #OperationArgus
    #US
    #history

  12. In August and September of 1958, the United States secretly sent a fleet of nine ships (Task Force 88) into the South Atlantic. Their mission was to launch nuclear missiles into space to see what would happen to the Earth's atmosphere.

    youtu.be/Pt6n-boPBNg

    #NuclearTests
    #OperationArgus
    #US
    #history

    1/

  13. In August and September of 1958, the United States secretly sent a fleet of nine ships (Task Force 88) into the South Atlantic. Their mission was to launch nuclear missiles into space to see what would happen to the Earth's atmosphere.

    youtu.be/Pt6n-boPBNg

    #NuclearTests
    #OperationArgus
    #US
    #history

    1/

  14. In ihrem Beitrag „Atomwaffen stehen nicht alleine“ in W&F 1/2026 beschreibt Janina Dannenberg die Auswirkungen der zahllosen nuklearen Bomben»tests« auf die Inselwelt #Ozeaniens. Sie problematisiert #kolonialistische Verhaltensmuster, die Vertreibung und Vergiftung der Natur und der einheimischen Bevölkerung.
    Hier den ganzen Beitrag lesen: wissenschaft-und-frieden.de/ar
    #Ecocide #NuclearTests #Rarotonga #NuclearFree

    Kunst: Chris Parkinson/chrsprknsn

    @IFSHHamburg @PRIF @hsduesseldorf @imi @NUCLEARBAN

  15. In ihrem Beitrag „Atomwaffen stehen nicht alleine“ in W&F 1/2026 beschreibt Janina Dannenberg die Auswirkungen der zahllosen nuklearen Bomben»tests« auf die Inselwelt #Ozeaniens. Sie problematisiert #kolonialistische Verhaltensmuster, die Vertreibung und Vergiftung der Natur und der einheimischen Bevölkerung.
    Hier den ganzen Beitrag lesen: wissenschaft-und-frieden.de/ar
    #Ecocide #NuclearTests #Rarotonga #NuclearFree

    Kunst: Chris Parkinson/chrsprknsn

    @IFSHHamburg @PRIF @hsduesseldorf @imi @NUCLEARBAN

  16. グローバル被爆者:核時代の隠された物語 [日本語吹替版]

    この短編動画では、拡大し続ける核時代の歴史、そして日本での出来事を超え、世界中の何百万もの人々に影響を与えた「隠された物語」を探ります。核実験、核兵器製造、そして事故の時代がいかにして広大なネットワーク、すなわち放射性降下物によって人生を永遠に変えられた人々——「グローバル・ヒバクシャ」——を生み出したのかを検証します。

    youtu.be/Jcq4uwXyjQk

    @bojacobs

    #Japanese
    #YouTube
    #日本語
    #hibakusha
    #Jacobs
    #NuclearTests
    #NuclearAccidents
    #fallout
    #グローバルヒバクシャ
    #核実験
    #放射性降下物
    #ダウンワインダー
    #オスケメン
    #歴史
    #ドキュメンタリー
    #GlobalHibakusha

  17. グローバル被爆者:核時代の隠された物語 [日本語吹替版]

    この短編動画では、拡大し続ける核時代の歴史、そして日本での出来事を超え、世界中の何百万もの人々に影響を与えた「隠された物語」を探ります。核実験、核兵器製造、そして事故の時代がいかにして広大なネットワーク、すなわち放射性降下物によって人生を永遠に変えられた人々——「グローバル・ヒバクシャ」——を生み出したのかを検証します。

    youtu.be/Jcq4uwXyjQk

    @bojacobs

    #Japanese
    #YouTube
    #日本語
    #hibakusha
    #Jacobs
    #NuclearTests
    #NuclearAccidents
    #fallout
    #グローバルヒバクシャ
    #核実験
    #放射性降下物
    #ダウンワインダー
    #オスケメン
    #歴史
    #ドキュメンタリー
    #GlobalHibakusha

  18. グローバル被爆者:核時代の隠された物語 [日本語吹替版]

    この短編動画では、拡大し続ける核時代の歴史、そして日本での出来事を超え、世界中の何百万もの人々に影響を与えた「隠された物語」を探ります。核実験、核兵器製造、そして事故の時代がいかにして広大なネットワーク、すなわち放射性降下物によって人生を永遠に変えられた人々——「グローバル・ヒバクシャ」——を生み出したのかを検証します。

    youtu.be/Jcq4uwXyjQk

    @bojacobs

    #Japanese
    #YouTube
    #日本語
    #hibakusha
    #Jacobs
    #NuclearTests
    #NuclearAccidents
    #fallout
    #グローバルヒバクシャ
    #核実験
    #放射性降下物
    #ダウンワインダー
    #オスケメン
    #歴史
    #ドキュメンタリー
    #GlobalHibakusha

  19. グローバル被爆者:核時代の隠された物語 [日本語吹替版]

    この短編動画では、拡大し続ける核時代の歴史、そして日本での出来事を超え、世界中の何百万もの人々に影響を与えた「隠された物語」を探ります。核実験、核兵器製造、そして事故の時代がいかにして広大なネットワーク、すなわち放射性降下物によって人生を永遠に変えられた人々——「グローバル・ヒバクシャ」——を生み出したのかを検証します。

    youtu.be/Jcq4uwXyjQk

    @bojacobs

    #Japanese
    #YouTube
    #日本語
    #hibakusha
    #Jacobs
    #NuclearTests
    #NuclearAccidents
    #fallout
    #グローバルヒバクシャ
    #核実験
    #放射性降下物
    #ダウンワインダー
    #オスケメン
    #歴史
    #ドキュメンタリー
    #GlobalHibakusha

  20. グローバル被爆者:核時代の隠された物語 [日本語吹替版]

    この短編動画では、拡大し続ける核時代の歴史、そして日本での出来事を超え、世界中の何百万もの人々に影響を与えた「隠された物語」を探ります。核実験、核兵器製造、そして事故の時代がいかにして広大なネットワーク、すなわち放射性降下物によって人生を永遠に変えられた人々——「グローバル・ヒバクシャ」——を生み出したのかを検証します。

    youtu.be/Jcq4uwXyjQk

    @bojacobs

    #Japanese
    #YouTube
    #日本語
    #hibakusha
    #Jacobs
    #NuclearTests
    #NuclearAccidents
    #fallout
    #グローバルヒバクシャ
    #核実験
    #放射性降下物
    #ダウンワインダー
    #オスケメン
    #歴史
    #ドキュメンタリー
    #GlobalHibakusha

  21. Using the tragic 1954 Castle Bravo test as a turning point, we analyze how radioactive fallout was tracked in secret while the victims were told the 'snow' falling on them was harmless. It is time to move past the cinematic myths of the mushroom cloud and confront the 'nuclear mundane': the quiet, ongoing reality of a world where the isotopes of the Cold War are still part of our environment and our biology.

    youtu.be/Pt6n-boPBNg

    #podcast
    #NuclearTests
    #fallout
    #hibakusha

  22. Using the tragic 1954 Castle Bravo test as a turning point, we analyze how radioactive fallout was tracked in secret while the victims were told the 'snow' falling on them was harmless. It is time to move past the cinematic myths of the mushroom cloud and confront the 'nuclear mundane': the quiet, ongoing reality of a world where the isotopes of the Cold War are still part of our environment and our biology.

    youtu.be/Pt6n-boPBNg

    #podcast
    #NuclearTests
    #fallout
    #hibakusha

  23. Today, we go on a deep dive into a globally dispersed, slow-motion nuclear war. By unpacking a massive archive of declassified memos and epidemiological research, we challenge the 'nuclear sublime'—the Hollywood myth of the mushroom cloud—and confront the 'nuclear mundane': the everyday physical reality of millions of people who became the Global Hibakusha.

    youtu.be/Pt6n-boPBNg

    #podcast
    #NuclearTests
    #fallout
    #hibakusha

  24. Today, we go on a deep dive into a globally dispersed, slow-motion nuclear war. By unpacking a massive archive of declassified memos and epidemiological research, we challenge the 'nuclear sublime'—the Hollywood myth of the mushroom cloud—and confront the 'nuclear mundane': the everyday physical reality of millions of people who became the Global Hibakusha.

    youtu.be/Pt6n-boPBNg

    #podcast
    #NuclearTests
    #fallout
    #hibakusha

  25. The Hidden Victims of Two Thousand Bombs: Unveiling the Global Hibakusha

    Between 1946 and 1989, a nuclear weapon was detonated somewhere on Earth every 8.6 days. While we are often taught that the Cold War was a 'peaceful' standoff that never went hot, the reality is far more chilling.

    youtu.be/Pt6n-boPBNg

    @randahl

    #podcast
    #NuclearTests
    #fallout
    #hibakusha

  26. The Hidden Victims of Two Thousand Bombs: Unveiling the Global Hibakusha

    Between 1946 and 1989, a nuclear weapon was detonated somewhere on Earth every 8.6 days. While we are often taught that the Cold War was a 'peaceful' standoff that never went hot, the reality is far more chilling.

    youtu.be/Pt6n-boPBNg

    @randahl

    #podcast
    #NuclearTests
    #fallout
    #hibakusha

  27. GLOBAL HIBAKUSHA

    This brief video explores the expansive and often overlooked history of the nuclear age, moving beyond the initial events in Japan to reveal a "hidden story" that has touched millions of lives globally. It examines how the era of testing, production, and accidents created a vast network of individuals—the "Global Hibakusha"—whose lives were forever altered by radioactive fallout

    youtu.be/IfRLHq9E-_o

    #video
    #YouTube
    #GlobalHibakusha
    #グローバル・ヒバクシャ
    #NuclearTests
    #fallout

  28. GLOBAL HIBAKUSHA

    This brief video explores the expansive and often overlooked history of the nuclear age, moving beyond the initial events in Japan to reveal a "hidden story" that has touched millions of lives globally. It examines how the era of testing, production, and accidents created a vast network of individuals—the "Global Hibakusha"—whose lives were forever altered by radioactive fallout

    youtu.be/IfRLHq9E-_o

    #video
    #YouTube
    #GlobalHibakusha
    #グローバル・ヒバクシャ
    #NuclearTests
    #fallout

  29. #ClimateChange May Unearth #ColdWar-Era #NuclearWaste Stored by the U.S. in Other Countries

    A new report finds that melting ice and #RisingSeaLevels could disturb #RadioactiveContamination left over from American #NuclearTests after World War II

    by Tara Wu, March 6, 2024

    Excerpt: "Rising global temperatures could unearth Cold War-era nuclear waste created by the United States and stored in other countries, posing potential issues for the environment and local inhabitants, according to a new report.

    "An assessment conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released earlier this year examined nuclear waste in the #MarshallIslands, #Greenland and #Spain, three locations with radioactive contamination resulting from American nuclear activity in the decades following World War II. Climate change could cause this nuclear waste to enter the environment, as warming temperatures melt ice sheets that contain radioactive liquid and raise sea levels that could pollute food and water sources with toxic waste, per the study.

    "This lingering contamination came from nuclear weapon detonations, including hydrogen bombs, and accidents at numerous sites around the world. Often, the U.S. government stored this waste near the sites of detonation, Robert Hayes, a nuclear engineer at North Carolina State University, says to Julia Jacobo of ABC News. In Greenland, officials disposed of nuclear waste in the ice sheet, and in the Marshall Islands, they placed it in a container with a concrete cap."

    Read more:
    smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

    #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #NoNukes #NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearWar #NuclearDumping #NuclearWaste #NuclearWeapons #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #Environment #EnvironmentalRacism

  30. #ClimateChange May Unearth #ColdWar-Era #NuclearWaste Stored by the U.S. in Other Countries

    A new report finds that melting ice and #RisingSeaLevels could disturb #RadioactiveContamination left over from American #NuclearTests after World War II

    by Tara Wu, March 6, 2024

    Excerpt: "Rising global temperatures could unearth Cold War-era nuclear waste created by the United States and stored in other countries, posing potential issues for the environment and local inhabitants, according to a new report.

    "An assessment conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released earlier this year examined nuclear waste in the #MarshallIslands, #Greenland and #Spain, three locations with radioactive contamination resulting from American nuclear activity in the decades following World War II. Climate change could cause this nuclear waste to enter the environment, as warming temperatures melt ice sheets that contain radioactive liquid and raise sea levels that could pollute food and water sources with toxic waste, per the study.

    "This lingering contamination came from nuclear weapon detonations, including hydrogen bombs, and accidents at numerous sites around the world. Often, the U.S. government stored this waste near the sites of detonation, Robert Hayes, a nuclear engineer at North Carolina State University, says to Julia Jacobo of ABC News. In Greenland, officials disposed of nuclear waste in the ice sheet, and in the Marshall Islands, they placed it in a container with a concrete cap."

    Read more:
    smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

    #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #NoNukes #NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearWar #NuclearDumping #NuclearWaste #NuclearWeapons #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #Environment #EnvironmentalRacism

  31. #ClimateChange May Unearth #ColdWar-Era #NuclearWaste Stored by the U.S. in Other Countries

    A new report finds that melting ice and #RisingSeaLevels could disturb #RadioactiveContamination left over from American #NuclearTests after World War II

    by Tara Wu, March 6, 2024

    Excerpt: "Rising global temperatures could unearth Cold War-era nuclear waste created by the United States and stored in other countries, posing potential issues for the environment and local inhabitants, according to a new report.

    "An assessment conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released earlier this year examined nuclear waste in the #MarshallIslands, #Greenland and #Spain, three locations with radioactive contamination resulting from American nuclear activity in the decades following World War II. Climate change could cause this nuclear waste to enter the environment, as warming temperatures melt ice sheets that contain radioactive liquid and raise sea levels that could pollute food and water sources with toxic waste, per the study.

    "This lingering contamination came from nuclear weapon detonations, including hydrogen bombs, and accidents at numerous sites around the world. Often, the U.S. government stored this waste near the sites of detonation, Robert Hayes, a nuclear engineer at North Carolina State University, says to Julia Jacobo of ABC News. In Greenland, officials disposed of nuclear waste in the ice sheet, and in the Marshall Islands, they placed it in a container with a concrete cap."

    Read more:
    smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

    #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #NoNukes #NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearWar #NuclearDumping #NuclearWaste #NuclearWeapons #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #Environment #EnvironmentalRacism

  32. #ClimateChange May Unearth #ColdWar-Era #NuclearWaste Stored by the U.S. in Other Countries

    A new report finds that melting ice and #RisingSeaLevels could disturb #RadioactiveContamination left over from American #NuclearTests after World War II

    by Tara Wu, March 6, 2024

    Excerpt: "Rising global temperatures could unearth Cold War-era nuclear waste created by the United States and stored in other countries, posing potential issues for the environment and local inhabitants, according to a new report.

    "An assessment conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released earlier this year examined nuclear waste in the #MarshallIslands, #Greenland and #Spain, three locations with radioactive contamination resulting from American nuclear activity in the decades following World War II. Climate change could cause this nuclear waste to enter the environment, as warming temperatures melt ice sheets that contain radioactive liquid and raise sea levels that could pollute food and water sources with toxic waste, per the study.

    "This lingering contamination came from nuclear weapon detonations, including hydrogen bombs, and accidents at numerous sites around the world. Often, the U.S. government stored this waste near the sites of detonation, Robert Hayes, a nuclear engineer at North Carolina State University, says to Julia Jacobo of ABC News. In Greenland, officials disposed of nuclear waste in the ice sheet, and in the Marshall Islands, they placed it in a container with a concrete cap."

    Read more:
    smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

    #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #NoNukes #NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearWar #NuclearDumping #NuclearWaste #NuclearWeapons #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #Environment #EnvironmentalRacism

  33. #ClimateChange May Unearth #ColdWar-Era #NuclearWaste Stored by the U.S. in Other Countries

    A new report finds that melting ice and #RisingSeaLevels could disturb #RadioactiveContamination left over from American #NuclearTests after World War II

    by Tara Wu, March 6, 2024

    Excerpt: "Rising global temperatures could unearth Cold War-era nuclear waste created by the United States and stored in other countries, posing potential issues for the environment and local inhabitants, according to a new report.

    "An assessment conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released earlier this year examined nuclear waste in the #MarshallIslands, #Greenland and #Spain, three locations with radioactive contamination resulting from American nuclear activity in the decades following World War II. Climate change could cause this nuclear waste to enter the environment, as warming temperatures melt ice sheets that contain radioactive liquid and raise sea levels that could pollute food and water sources with toxic waste, per the study.

    "This lingering contamination came from nuclear weapon detonations, including hydrogen bombs, and accidents at numerous sites around the world. Often, the U.S. government stored this waste near the sites of detonation, Robert Hayes, a nuclear engineer at North Carolina State University, says to Julia Jacobo of ABC News. In Greenland, officials disposed of nuclear waste in the ice sheet, and in the Marshall Islands, they placed it in a container with a concrete cap."

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    smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

    #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #NoNukes #NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearWar #NuclearDumping #NuclearWaste #NuclearWeapons #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #Environment #EnvironmentalRacism

  34. Allegations of a Chinese nuclear blast may reignite weapons testing

    In the afternoon on 22 June 2020, a seismic station in eastern Kazakhstan registered two small earthquakes 12 seconds 
apart near China’s Lop Nur nuclear test site. Closely spaced jolts can arise from underground explosions followed by a cavity collapse, or simply from earthquakes. But U.S. officials this month asserted the shaking was from a clandestine nuclear detonation—

    #photography
    #China
    #NuclearWeapons
    #NuclearTests

  35. Allegations of a Chinese nuclear blast may reignite weapons testing

    In the afternoon on 22 June 2020, a seismic station in eastern Kazakhstan registered two small earthquakes 12 seconds 
apart near China’s Lop Nur nuclear test site. Closely spaced jolts can arise from underground explosions followed by a cavity collapse, or simply from earthquakes. But U.S. officials this month asserted the shaking was from a clandestine nuclear detonation—

    #photography
    #China
    #NuclearWeapons
    #NuclearTests

  36. Global hibakusha

    Who are the “global hibakusha”? As many of us know, hibakusha is the Japanese word used to refer to those who survived the two nuclear attacks conducted by the United States against the people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Those attacks killed between 100,000 and 200,000 human beings instantly, and wounded as many.

    apjjf.org/2022/7/Jacobs

    #Japan
    #hibakusha
    #NuclearWeapons
    #NuclearTests
    #radioactivity
    #fallout

  37. Global hibakusha

    Who are the “global hibakusha”? As many of us know, hibakusha is the Japanese word used to refer to those who survived the two nuclear attacks conducted by the United States against the people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Those attacks killed between 100,000 and 200,000 human beings instantly, and wounded as many.

    apjjf.org/2022/7/Jacobs

    #Japan
    #hibakusha
    #NuclearWeapons
    #NuclearTests
    #radioactivity
    #fallout

  38. How US nuclear tests forever changed the Marshall Islands
    How US nuclear tests forever changed the Marshall Islands
    #Us #Nucleartests

    opr.news/1f5aaacd251106en_us?l

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    Warramunga detected all six of North Korea's declared nuclear tests, and our data was among the first to reach the International Data Centre in Vienna.

    " When a wild brumby gallops past our sensors, we pick it up. When a nuclear bomb is tested on the other side of the world, we definitely know about it."

    abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/aus

    #Australia
    #Warramunga
    #NuclearTests
    #monitoring

  40. 2/
    Warramunga detected all six of North Korea's declared nuclear tests, and our data was among the first to reach the International Data Centre in Vienna.

    " When a wild brumby gallops past our sensors, we pick it up. When a nuclear bomb is tested on the other side of the world, we definitely know about it."

    abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/aus

    #Australia
    #Warramunga
    #NuclearTests
    #monitoring

  41. A giant telescope pointed at Earth's centre

    The facility operates two sophisticated arrays. One consists of 24 seismometers detecting vibrations through Earth, the other eight infrasound sensors picking up ultra-low-frequency sound waves inaudible to human ears.

    When North Korea detonated its largest nuclear device in September 2017 — about 7,000km away — our instruments captured it clearly.

    #Australia
    #Warramunga
    #NuclearTests
    #monitoring

  42. A giant telescope pointed at Earth's centre

    The facility operates two sophisticated arrays. One consists of 24 seismometers detecting vibrations through Earth, the other eight infrasound sensors picking up ultra-low-frequency sound waves inaudible to human ears.

    When North Korea detonated its largest nuclear device in September 2017 — about 7,000km away — our instruments captured it clearly.

    #Australia
    #Warramunga
    #NuclearTests
    #monitoring

  43. Thursday, November 6, 2025

    Online Killboard: How to track Ukraine’s top drone units in (almost) real-time -- Under the hood, Russia’s 'Reaper' drone copy is shockingly America -- Angelina Jolie reportedly visits front-line regions in southern Ukraine -- Trump’s Russia sanctions explained by leading economist ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025