#NewMexico Senator Calls Out Enduring Effects Of #Oppenheimer Nuke Test

The New Mexican desert where the #TrinityTest took place wasn't exactly uninhabited, as Sen. #BenRayLuján pointed out.

“Generations of New Mexicans later, thousands of victims and their family members continue to face serious, sometimes deadly health complications.”

#Nuclear #NuclearTesting
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-mexico-senator-calls-out-enduring-effects-of-oppenheimer-nuke-test_n_64bbf28ae4b0ad7b75f924d6

@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

The fallout from the Trinity Test that landed in Indiana led to the contamination of strawboard boxes, some of which were used by the Kodak Company to ship film. The radiation from the fallout fogged the film, making it unusable. The story made newspapers after the news of the nuclear attacks on #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki.

When nuclear testing started at the Nevada Test Site in 1951, Kodak was given top secret information about the scheduling of tests so that they could protect their products.

The people who lived downwind from the Nevada nuclear tests were not given the same consideration as the products of the Kodak Company.

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#NuclearTesting #NTS #Kodak #ColdWar @histodons @sts

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a21382/how-kodak-accidentally-discovered-radioactive-fallout/

As you wrap your head around particles from wildfires creating risk 1000s of km away, and even on the other side of the world, use this to understand how radioactive fallout particles from nuclear weapon "tests" spread radioactive particles all around the world.

They have been found on every continent, at the poles, in the Mariana Trench, even in #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki.

This is the fallout cloud from the #Bravo test in the Marshall Islands in 1954, taken 15 minutes after detonation. H-bomb tests brought these particulates high into the upper atmosphere where they circled the Earth before "falling out" all across the globe. Many remain dangerous for 100s or 1000s of years.

#nuclear #NuclearTesting #GlobalHibakusha #RadioactiveFallout @histodons #histodons @sts #ColdWar #environment

100,000s of US troops participated in #nuclear weapon testing, and many were exposed to significant amounts of radiation. This film is from the Climax test (4 June 1953) 61kt (Hiroshima was 14kt) at the Nevada Test Site. These troops are about 3km away, you can see them inhaling radioactive dust as the blast wave passes overhead.

Most have been denied compensation for their radiogenic diseases related to their service.

#MemorialDay #NTS #ColdWar @histodons #NuclearTesting

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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

"Is death dust America's secret weapon?"

PIC Magazine July 1941

The US was considered using radioactive particles, what we now call "fallout" as a weapon even before there were nuclear weapons.

Since then nations have downplayed the risks to living creatures from fallout. They have always known the dangers. It has always been a weapon, even when experienced after a nuclear "test"

#nuclear #NuclearWeapon #radiation #fallout #ColdWar #NuclearTesting @nuclearhumanities @sts @histodons

📰 “Our relations have degraded and that’s completely and utterly the US’s fault." #Putin announced Tuesday at his state-of-the-nation speech, #Russia will suspend the existing bi-lateral #nuclear agreement with this US. Unless.

This is a #FreeRead @ #FinancialTimes. #Propaganda #NuclearBlackmail. #Ukraine #negotiations #ColdWar #Redux #nukes #NuclearTesting https://www.ft.com/content/74a5d3f6-7e41-40e5-bc8e-ba22a93e2cf4

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

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

More than 100 arms control, environmental and other activist groups, led by the Arms Control Association, have urged the Biden administration to formally apologize to the Marshall Islands for the impact of massive nuclear testing there in the 1940s and '50s and to provide fair compensation.

https://www.reuters.com/world/activists-urge-us-apology-fair-compensation-us-pacific-nuclear-testing-2023-01-10/

#nucleartesting