@clacke When those powers combine #bikiniatoll

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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

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/world/asia/bikini-atoll-resettlement-fund.html

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. 😡🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

> The “Daigo Fukuryu Maru” was damaged by the hydrogen bomb test.. by the United States on March 1, 1954 at #BikiniAtoll, #MarshallIslands in the Pacific.
Although only coastal fishing is carried out by wooden boats these days, at the time such wooden boats were also used in deep-sea fishing. The “ #DaigoFukuryuMaru” was built in 1947 in Wakayama Prefecture as a bonito fishing boat, but was later remodeled as a deep-sea tuna fishing vessel.
http://d5f.org/en
#LuckyDragon #NoNukes #Japan

The first 30 minutes about the #NuclearBomb explosions and #RadiationTesting in the #MarshallIslands and the #BikiniAtoll made me sad, like the film about #AgentOrange in #Vietnam by #MasakoSakata: 'Agent Orange A Personal Requiem'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAfeYMONj9E