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 #NuclearWeaponsTests. In the #MarshallIslands, where 23 of those earth-shattering blasts happened, people have never been able to forget
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/25/endless-fallout-marshall-islands-pacific-idyll-still-facing-nuclear-blight-77-years-on

The Golden Rule, once derelict with no masts or engine and at anchor, is again braving the winds and waves.
#veterans #marshallislands
https://progressive.org/magazine/sailing-the-seas-of-conscience-bradley/

@bojacobs @histodons @sts

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

Marshall Islands calls for US to pay more compensation over nuclear tests | Nuclear weapons | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/13/marshall-islands-pacific-us-nuclear-bomb-test-payment

"Marshall Islanders are still plagued by health and environmental effects of 67 nuclear bomb tests from 1946 to 1958, which included Castle Bravo at Bikini Atoll in 1954 – the largest US bomb ever detonated."

They do deserve more, I think.

#NuclearTests #MarshallIslands #AmericanEmpire

IMF Highlights Climate Change and DAOs as Major Threats to the Marshall Islands - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has identified climate change and decentralized aut... - https://cryptonews.com/news/imf-highlights-climate-change-daos-as-major-threats-marshall-islands.htm #marshallislands #blockchainnews #imf #dao

Sometimes it is extra nice to have fibre at the house...
2.3Gb down in < 5 minutes...
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https://topotools.cr.usgs.gov/topobathy_viewer/?region=majuro
#GIS #spatial #mapping #CoNED #opendata #topobathy #hydrospatial #gischat #bathymetry #elevation #remotesensing #MajuroAtoll #MarshallIslands #WFH #homeoffice
@usgs

Marshallese breakfast: Donat.
#cooking #international #breakfast #MarshallIslands

https://xvf17.github.io/breakfast/m/marshall_islands.html

Il giornalista milanese Roberto Brambilla ha intervistato coloro che stanno tentando un'impresa epica: portare ufficialmente il calcio alle #marshallislands.
Una storia che non parla solo di calcio, ma della lotta per la sopravvivenza di un popolo.

https://www.footballandlife.it/2023/05/29/il-sogno-delle-isole-marshall-lultimo-paese-senza-calcio/

#calcio #football

Officials in Washington are keeping quiet about nuclear-related crises affecting the Marshall Islands, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean where the U.S. detonated sixty-seven nuclear bombs between 1946 and 1958.
#NuclearWar #marshallislands
https://progressive.org/latest/the-united-states%E2%80%99-radioactive-legacy-in-the-marshall-islands-hunt-20230619/

This #Midjourney #genAI shows "low-lying coral atolls and islands in the tropical North Pacific Ocean".

Friday June 9 at 2:00 pm Eastern join the #UnitedStates #Geological Survey for "Co-Production of Satellite-Derived Vegetation Health Reports with #MarshallIslands Stakeholder Communities" which will discuss this fragile collection of #CriticalZone #ComplexSystems

#EnvironmentalScience #USGS

https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/ecosystems/news/fridays-findings-june-9-2023

#PortodiVasto, Marsilio: “Nuova stagione dopo approdo del cargo delle Isole Marshall”

Vasto. “L’ingresso, per la prima volta, nel porto di Vasto di un cargo mercantile battente bandiera #MarshallIslands, lungo 209 metri, il più grande che abbia mai fatto scalo a Vasto, è la testimonianza del buon lavoro che stiamo facendo con il presidente della Autorità portuale Vincenzo Garofalo, con il quale ci siamo fortemente impegnati
L'articolo #PortodiVasto, Marsilio: “Nuova stagione dopo approdo del cargo delle Isole Marshall” sembra essere il primo su AbruzzoLive.

Port of Vasto, Marsilio: 'New season after landing of #MarshallIslands cargo ship'

Vasto. "The entry, for the first time, into the port of Vasto of a 209-metre-long freighter flying the #MarshallIslands flag, the largest that has ever called at Vasto, is testimony to the good work we are doing with the president of the Port Authority Vincenzo Garofalo, with whom we are strongly committed
The article Port of Vasto, Marsilio: 'New season after landing of #MarshallIslands cargo ship' appeared first on AbruzzoLive.

22-5-2023 14:53 #AbruzzoLive https://abruzzolive.it https://abruzzolive.it/porto-di-vasto-marsilio-nuova-stagione-dopo-approdo-del-cargo-delle-isole-marshall/

🇲🇭 Happy Constitution Day, Marshall Islands! 🇲🇭 #MarshallIslands

The WHO found a cough syrup batch
With a contaminated catch
In Micronesia
And the Marshall Islands too
Those poor folks knew they did not fetch

#who #guaifenesin #contaminatedmedicine #marshallislands #micronesia #limerick #poetry

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-65395716

“Given the rate at which the planet is warming, scientists predict that low-lying atolls across the Pacific region like Kiribati, Marshall Islands and Tuvalu could be uninhabitable this century, threatening the cultural legacy of the roughly 10 million people living there.
“It’s hard to swallow for Pacific Island nations that have contributed the least to the climate crisis, while rich countries continue to pump out planet-heating pollution.
“How much more science do we need to tell these countries that climate change is real? If we lose the Pacific Islands, it will have a great impact on the global community, because we are all connected.”

#auspol #ClimateEmergency #TorresStrait #ClimateRefugees #PacificIslands #Tuvalu #Kirabati #MarshallIslands #Vanuatu #Tonga #Fiji #Palau #PNG #ClimateAction

From: @Interactives
https://botsin.space/@Interactives/110244619651602199

https://en.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2009310
#Taiwan #MarshallIslands

https://archive.org/details/pacific-languages-in-education

Pacific Languages in Education by France Mugler; John Lynch; Kasi Ielemia; Konai Helu Thaman; Greg R. Abare; Vilisi Balawa; Byron Bender; Richard A. Benton; Alfred Capelle; Terry Crowley; Vāvāō Fetui; Pamela Gentry; Apolonia Tamata; Ernest W. Lee; Sam Drilë Léonard; Iris Bella Lui; Afamasaga Mālia Mālaki-Williams; Vincent B. Manukayasi; Jeff Siegel; Mary L. Spencer; Winston Pukoki

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A favourite reef, a beloved atoll: #MarshallIslands parents name children after vanishing landmarks https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/25/a-favourite-reef-a-beloved-atoll-marshall-islands-parents-name-children-after-vanishing-landmarks?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #ClimateChange #SeaLevelRise

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/micronesia-pacific-islands-china-bribery-accuses-3339346?cid=internal_sharetool_iphone_10032023_cna #China #MarshallIslands #Micronesia

Learn about open-source tech and technologists from Marshall Islands: https://workdojos.com/Marshall-Islands (#opensource #marshallislands)

March 1: #MoronDay
#JamesHarveyRobinson on moron as "a person who doesn't think."
> It was so violent that it overwhelmed the measuring instruments, indicating that the bomb was much more powerful than scientists had anticipated...The #AtomicEnergyCommission announced this was the first in a series of tests to be carried out in the area... the #Enewetak weapon forced together nuclei of hydrogen to unleash an even greater destructive force.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/1/newsid_2781000/2781419.stm
#NoNukes #MarshallIslands