US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated
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Re: US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated
#2I was literally just watching this video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=autMHvj3exA
Re: US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated
#3I was literally just watching this video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=autMHvj3exA
Wow, just started watching it. I had no idea the Marshall Islands were settled thousands of years ago. Horrifying that they just detonated atomic bombs there and let people deal with the fallout...
Re: US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated
#4I was literally just watching this video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=autMHvj3exA
Wow, just started watching it. I had no idea the Marshall Islands were settled thousands of years ago. Horrifying that they just detonated atomic bombs there and let people deal with the fallout...
not the first, not the last
Re: US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated
#5I was literally just watching this video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=autMHvj3exA
Wow, just started watching it. I had no idea the Marshall Islands were settled thousands of years ago. Horrifying that they just detonated atomic bombs there and let people deal with the fallout...
Don't worry, a few were compensated $550/year for their troubles[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll#Nuclear_test_site
Re: US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated
#6I was literally just watching this video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=autMHvj3exA
Wow, just started watching it. I had no idea the Marshall Islands were settled thousands of years ago. Horrifying that they just detonated atomic bombs there and let people deal with the fallout...
Not just let them deal with the fallout. These islanders were intentionally used as human guinea pigs for radiation experimentation like other pacific island peoples - including the japanese civilians in hiroshima and nagasaki. Some of these islanders were intentionally relocated to nuclear testing sites in order to poison them with radiation and see the effects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_4.1
Search Nuclear Savage or "John the Savage" and there are declassified videos of these islanders being tested for radiation.
Re: US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated
#7I was literally just watching this video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=autMHvj3exA
Wow, just started watching it. I had no idea the Marshall Islands were settled thousands of years ago. Horrifying that they just detonated atomic bombs there and let people deal with the fallout...
I'm sure they were think a few of the following
- this is more economical
- better them than us, let this small island deal with it
- nobody will ever find out about this (read as not enough people will find out for it to matter) and even if they do then we don't really need to deal with much of a consequence because it's a small island, what are they early going to do about it
- let's evacuate everyone off the island, throw some cheap concrete dome on it, and by the time it starts failing the world will have forgotten about this
Re: US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, just started watching it. I had no idea the Marshall Islands were settled thousands of years ago. Horrifying that they just detonated atomic bombs there and let people deal with the fallout...
Not just let them deal with the fallout. These islanders were intentionally used as human guinea pigs for radiation experimentation like other pacific island peoples - including the japanese civilians in hiroshima and nagasaki. Some of these islanders were intentionally relocated to nuclear testing sites in order to poison them with radiation and see the effects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_4.1 Search Nucle…
They did a lot of bad things, but having just read the article you linked, the evidence that exposure was intentional seems pretty weak.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, just started watching it. I had no idea the Marshall Islands were settled thousands of years ago. Horrifying that they just detonated atomic bombs there and let people deal with the fallout...
Not just let them deal with the fallout. These islanders were intentionally used as human guinea pigs for radiation experimentation like other pacific island peoples - including the japanese civilians in hiroshima and nagasaki. Some of these islanders were intentionally relocated to nuclear testing sites in order to poison them with radiation and see the effects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_4.1 Search Nucle…
Assuming it's true the US Did nuke fallout experiments on people 7 years after the end of a war, you need to keep in mind, that's what happens after a war. People who are put into combat situtuations look at human life as a numbers game; the experiment on them would have been justified along those lines. Kill some marginal population in horrific ways in a worthwile experiment to save more lives in the future; to a soldier this makes perfect sense.
The problem with war is not the war itself, it's the weapons, including people, you leave laying around after. Once you get the bad lines of thinking started they perpetuate.
You'd do very well for yourself to remember that while you're re-writing the history of WW2. It's one heck of a spin to call the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki "an experiment"; there was a war going on. The Americans knew exactly what was going to happen from the nuke; kill lots of Japs and hope they surrender and given the belligerance of both sides, I'd say they were probably right.
Re: US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, just started watching it. I had no idea the Marshall Islands were settled thousands of years ago. Horrifying that they just detonated atomic bombs there and let people deal with the fallout...
Don't worry, a few were compensated $550/year for their troubles[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll#Nuclear_test_site
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