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Over the weekend, the Marshall Islands marked 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tests ever conducted were unleashed.

The Micronesian nation experienced 67 known atmospheric nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958, resulting in an ongoing legacy of death, illness, and contamination.

rnz.co.nz/international/pacifi

RNZ · Seven decades on, Marshall Islands still reeling from nuclear testing legacyBy Lydia Lewis

Commentary: #WaterProtectors on trial again as #Greenpeace case begins in #NorthDakota

by #WinonaLaDuke
February 24, 2025

Excerpt: "North Dakota v. USA

"In March of last year, I was a federal witness in the North Dakota v. United States of America trial in Bismarck, where North Dakota charged that the United States Army Corps of Engineers had caused the #StandingRock #resistance by issuing a conditional use permit for the flood plain. Attorneys asked if I came to Standing Rock resistance camp because the Army Corps issued a permit. My response: No. I came for the #water,and I came because #LaDonnaBraveBull Allard asked me to come. I came because #Enbridge, the Canadian #pipeline company, had proposed a Sandpiper #pipeline across our territory in northern Minnesota and we defeated them, only to find that they later financed 28% of the #DakotaAccessPipeline. I came for the water.

"#EnergyTransfer v. #Greenpeace

"There’s another big trial starting Monday in #MandanNorthDakota, too, in Morton County District Court. There, Judge James Gion will preside over a jury trial in the case of Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace. Energy Transfer charges that Greenpeace effectively orchestrated and was a force driving the Standing Rock resistance. That allegation is pretty surprising to the thousands of people who came to Standing Rock without even hearing about Greenpeace being there. That case will be heard behind #ClosedDoors, no livestreaming, and yet somehow a judge in a small county without a law clerk will make sure the justice of a jury trial is carried out. The case with a multitude of pretrial motions is described as the largest in North Dakota history, so carrying out justice, well that’s a challenge.

"'This is a pretty ludicrous accusation,' noted #DeepaPadmanabha, Greenpeace’s senior legal counsel, responding to charges that Greenpeace effectively orchestrated and was a force driving the Standing Rock resistance. 'Standing Rock was one of the largest #Indigenous-led protests in history. It was a grassroots-led resistance, and the idea that Greenpeace orchestrated it is a #racist attempt to erase #IndigenousHistory.'

"But it might be what you’d expect from a company whose CEO once said that protesters who damaged construction equipment should be 'removed from the gene pool.'

"I’d encourage you to watch the trial online, but unfortunately, Judge Gion has denied a motion to arrange for the trial to be streamed online.

"As The Wall Street Journal reported in September, 'both sides expect a #FossilFuel - friendly jury.' Check out the
'community' page on the company’s daplpipelinefacts.com website and you’ll understand why. There’s a picture of Mandan town employees appreciatively holding up a giant check representing Energy Transfer’s $3 million donation to upgrade the town’s library and other infrastructure.

"Energy Transfer is suing Greenpeace for damages, initially proposed at $300 million, in what Greenpeace has called an effort to bankrupt the organization. Greenpeace is the 50-year-old environmental organization which has been part of opposing #NuclearTesting in the Pacific, saving #whales from factory #trawlers, and challenging #BigOil. That’s something you are not supposed to do in North Dakota, it seems, where oil money slicks through all the systems. In North Dakota, the message seems to be, No one should oppose a pipeline project. No one."

Read more:
northdakotamonitor.com/2025/02
#WaterIsLife #StandWithStandingRock #NoDAPL #KelcyWarren #Trump #StandWithStandingRock
#CorporateColonialism
#BigOilAndGas #EnvironmentalRacism #StandingRock #SLAPPs #NoDAPL #WaterIsLife #SLAPPsLawsuits #SilencingDissent #ACAB #EnergyTransfer

Erm, what? "The UK, France, Russia and North Korea have been on the same side in a UN vote before. In December last year, they were the only four countries to vote against a general assembly resolution aimed at helping radiation victims of nuclear testing and restoring the environment at past test sites."

theguardian.com/world/2024/oct

The Guardian · UK urged to break with France, North Korea and Russia on UN nuclear war resolutionBy Julian Borger
#UK#UKPolitics#WTF

#Nuclear #NuclearTesting

Gift article from the NYTimes--an excellent opinion piece with video narratives We are ALL victims of nuclear testing, not just those people near the testing sites: "In the United States alone, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that every person in the continental United States who has been alive since 1951 has had some exposure to radioactive fallout from nuclear testing."

nytimes.com/interactive/2024/0

The New York Times · Opinion | Nuclear Weapons Testing Has an Unending LegacyBy W.J. Hennigan

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January 27th is the National Day of Remembrance for America’s Downwinders in the USA. These are people who lived downwind of the Nevada Nuclear Test site, and were exposed to radioactive fallout. Much of that fallout remains radioactive and is now embedded into the ecosystem.

The US government has paid a token compensation to a minuscule portion of this community through #RECA.

#NTS #NNSS #nuclear #NuclearTesting #ColdWar @histodons

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Most of this material is from attempts to “decontaminate" ships irradiated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. You may have seen images of the navy ships beneath the low hanging mushroom cloud. The US Navy towed many of these ships to the Bay Area and one by one tried to decontaminate them at Hunter's Point. They failed to decontaminate them, but succeeded in contaminating the shipyard.

They later sunk the irradiated ships at the #Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco, which is now the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge.

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#OperationCrossroads #BikiniAtoll #RMI

There are two forms of nuclear colonialism. The extraction of natural resources from traditional indigenous and colonized lands. And the colonialism of treating a place as empty, as "no place" where there is "no one" and there are no consequences for nuclear testing. Nuclear weapon states have always very intentionally "selected the irradiated." Read, Nuclear Bodies: The Global #Hibakusha.

#NuclearPower #colonialism #NuclearTesting #ColdWar @histodons @sts @nuclearhumanities

vimeo.com/manage/videos/669675

vimeo.comVimeo

The whole ecosystem is "marked" by radioactive particles globally distributed by nuclear weapon testing:

"Anthropogenic uranium signatures in turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles from nuclear sites"

There are countless species, flora and fauna, with studies tracking this. Interested in more on this, read my book *Nuclear Bodies*

#Anthropocene #nuclear #NuclearTesting @histodons

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art

#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
huffpost.com/entry/new-mexico-

HuffPostNew Mexico Senator Calls Out Enduring Effects Of 'Oppenheimer' Nuke TestBy Sara Boboltz
Replied to Bo Jacobs

@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.

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The fallout from the Trinity Test that landed in the field on the Illinois/Indiana border contaminated crops that were used to make cardboard boxes. Some of those boxes 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.

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

orau.org/health-physics-museum

Museum of Radiation and RadioactivityKodak Film Fogged by the Trinity Test (1945)

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