To learn more, read Kate Brown's *Plutopia*

"Mayak: The secret nuclear power plant that poisoned Russians for decades"

#Mayak #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #Russia #ColdWarHist @histodons @sts

https://bigthink.com/the-past/mayak-secret-nuclear-plant-poisoned-russians-decades/

Selecting the irradiated (one of the chapter titles of my book):

The US conducted 1,054 nuclear weapon tests.

88% were conducted inside the US at the Nevada Test Site.

8% were conducted in the Marshall Islands.

This chart shows that the US concentrated the much larger hydrogen bomb tests in the Marshall Islands, and that the 8% of tests there released far more blast, heat and radiation than the domestic tests.

This is a form of nuclear colonialism.

#RMI #nuclear #NuclearWeapons #ColdWarHist #colonialism @histodons @sts

Very casual in the 60ies the soviet advisers in Cuba :) #coldwarhist #history

Hey #coldwarhist #intel #history peoples, i'm looking for some biographies, writings about: Yan Berzin / GRU / Viktor Abakumov
Thanks for your replies :)
RT appreciated

Photo kept by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, dated Oct. 23, 1962, shows an MK-28 hydrogen bomb being transported to an aircraft for loading at Kadena Air Base on #Okinawa

#Japan #nuclear #NuclearWeapon #ColdWarHist

RT @Greenham_Common
Does anyone know why the U-2 was called TR1-A for a time? Here it is at #RAF Greenham Common in July 1983. #RIAT #ColdWar #ColdWarHist @ColdWarPod @CobraBall3

What "survival" looked like in Cold War America

A 1950 air-raid drill at Portland’s Lincoln High School

This photograph originally appeared in the *Oregon Journal* as an illustration for an article by Dan Flanagan, titled “Portland Schools Map Air Raid Precautions.”

#ColdWarHist @histodons @nuclearhumanities @sts #CivilDefense

A short video introduction to my book *Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha* published by Yale University Press in 2022.

Discusses the global distribution of radioactive fallout from nuclear weapon tests and nuclear power accidents, and the impact this had on downwind communities.

Book website link on my profile page

@nuclearhumanities @histodons @sts

#nuclear #hibakusha #ColdWarHist #NuclearPower #NuclearTesting #Hiroshima #RMI #Kazakhstan #Anthropocene #environment #NuclearWaste

https://vimeo.com/661846613

2 primary forms of nuclear #colonialism:

First two are: resource extraction (uranium mining) from indigenous lands; & the #colonialism of defining a place as "empty" and inhabited by "nobody"

This can be seen in the siting of #nuclear weapon testing sites, and nuclear production sites (plutonium & uranium processing)

H-bomb tests were so big, the three NATO #nuclear weapon states all tested them on Pacific islands and atolls (#NATO vs. the #Pacific)

Soviet Union defined Kazakhs as "nomads" & detonated almost 500 nukes there
#France & #UK never tested a single weapon in their own countries, only in colonial or #postcolonial spaces
China tested in #Uyghur territory

Millions of people lived close to nuclear weapon test sites and production sites, they experienced harm, displacement & contamination of their homes & food sources. Many remain contaminated today.

These are among the global #hibakusha

@nuclearhumanities @sts @histodons #ColdWarHist #EnvHist

https://vimeo.com/669675976

"US nears new cooperation deals with Pacific Island nations"

US continues to dismiss responsibility for radiological contamination from testing H-bombs in the Marshall Islands, or any obligation for remediation.

"Many on the Marshall Islands believe a U.S. settlement of $150 million agreed to in the 1980s fell well short of addressing the nuclear legacy. But the U.S. position has remained static for more than 20 years, the last time the compact came up for renegotiation.

Various estimates put the true cost of the damage at about $3 billion, including for repairs to a massive nuclear waste facility known as the Cactus Dome which environmentalists say is leaking toxic waste into the ocean.

The U.S. Department of Energy says the dome contains over 100,000 cubic yards (76,000 cubic meters) of radioactively contaminated soil and debris but the structure isn’t in any immediate danger of failing."

#RMI #Pacific #nuclear #ColdWarHist @histodons @sts #Runit #DOE

https://apnews.com/article/politics-china-marshall-islands-palau-cadbe13c8cf26dd8b117bca686e06bba

Emblem of the Nevada-Semipalatinsk alliance. A post-Cold War alliance linking the two major nuclear weapon testing sites of the Cold War. An early "global hibakusha" linkage.

#Semey #Semipalatinsk #ColdWarHist @histodons @nuclearhumanities @sts #nuclear #NuclearWeapons #NTS #NNNS #NuclearTesting

"Cold War estimates of deaths in nuclear conflict"

Excellent article with very useful and informative links to documents.

William Burr in the Bulletin: https://thebulletin.org/2023/01/cold-war-estimates-of-deaths-in-nuclear-conflict/

"Cold War calculations. Casualty estimates were part of the war planning effort from the beginning, a recognizable element of ascertaining the impact of nuclear strikes on a given country or set of targets. Estimates made during the late 1940s projected millions of deaths from atomic bombings. By the mid-1950s, with thermonuclear weapons becoming available, deaths in scores of millions became certain. These hydrogen bombs were “area weapons” that could destroy large cities and their surroundings, or large areas around military targets."

@nuclearhumanities @histodons @sts #nucelar #ColdWarHist #EnvHist

"In 1978, a Soviet satellite exploded over traditional Dené land. Its effects are still felt today"

CBC: https://shrtm.nu/xn4j

"On Jan. 24, 1978, a Soviet #nuclear satellite called Kosmos 954 re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and exploded over northern #Canada. #Radioactive debris was spread across the eastern part of the Northwest Territories, the western part of what's now Nunavut and into northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. A joint Canadian-American recovery team spent most of the year searching a 124,000 km/sq area. That recovery effort was known as Operation Morning Light."

#histodons @histodons #ColdWarHist

Nuclear weapon detonations produce radiation in two primary forms, external radioactive waves, and particles of radioactive fallout.

Our health models have been built on studying the effects of external radiation to those who survived in #Hiroshima & Nagasaki. But with 2,000+ nuclear tests, most people have instead been exposed to fallout, and may internalize radionuclides into their bodies.

Their health claims are routinely dismissed by citing studies that have only examined the health effects of external exposures.

These are the global #hibakusha, and we are just learning how to understand what happened to them during the Cold War.

#nuclear #histodons @histodons #STS #ColdWarHist

https://vimeo.com/672662579

.@BeefeaterDave tells his #coldwar story of guarding Hitler’s deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess here https://pod.fo/e/150903 @histodons #coldwarhist #TowerOfLondon

Nuclear weapon detonations produce external radioactive waves, and particles of radioactive fallout.

Our health models have been built on studying the effects of external radiation to those who survived in #Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Specifically the Life Span Study.

But with 2,000 nuclear tests, most people have been exposed to fallout, and may internalize fallout into their bodies. Their health claims are routinely dismissed by citing studies that have only examined the health effects of external exposures.

This has facilitated denying the actual impacts of internalized fallout radiation on people near test sites, plutonium production sites and accident sites like #Chernobyl and #Fukushima

#nuclear #ColdWarHist #radiation #histodons @histodons @STS

https://vimeo.com/672662579

"Officials don’t intend to ask for more state money next year for uranium mine cleanup"

SourceNM

"Uranium mining boomed in New Mexico from the 1950s to the 1980s, before there were many state and federal environmental regulations in place. The United States government used most of the #uranium to develop nuclear weapons. Once demand dropped, many companies abandoned their mines, despite numerous environmental and health risks the sites pose.

The mines that dot the landscape have been poisoning people for decades, exposing them to #radioactivity. Many of the sites are concentrated in northwestern New Mexico and on #Navajo Nation, and they expose people to radiation."

#histodons @histodons #nuclear #nuclearwaste #ColdWarHist #NewMexico

https://shrtm.nu/fRyH

Two news #coldwarhist books arrived ! :)

Millions of tons of #radioactive waste, have been stitched into our planet. Much is classified as high-level and will remain dangerous to living beings for more than 100,000 years, we plan to bury the most dangerous of it—the spent nuclear fuel—half a kilometer underground. Deep geological storage sites are already under construction in many countries, including Finland & Sweden, many more are under design. These will present a risk to thousands of generations of human and other beings.

We wrestle with what instructions to leave beside the waste—instructions we imagine will help protect people in the future—oblivious to the fact that the presence of our waste in their world is itself the message.

Long after our cities & monuments have crumbled, long after our languages are unspoken, long after our gods have turned away, our nuclear waste will endure. It is how our descendants will know us.

#histodons @histodons #STS #nuclear #Anthropocene #ColdWarHist

https://vimeo.com/663187398

Trailer for upcoming documentary about Rocky Flats, the former site where the US assembled the cores of #nuclear weapons

"What happens when a nuclear weapons plant closes in your neighborhood? ROCKY FLATS tells the story of the massive amount of nuclear waste still sitting in the American landscape, as communities in Colorado face off with big government over the toxic legacy of the Cold War."

#histodons @histodons #RockyFlats #ColdWarHist

https://vimeo.com/345012446