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Bo Jacobs<p>Hunter's Point is contaminated because that is where the US Navy tried to "decontaminate" ships irradiated at nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll</p><p>"San Francisco artists maintain a creative haven for 40 years—at a radioactive site"</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/SF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SF</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/HuntersPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HuntersPoint</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/27/san-francisco-hunters-point-shipyard-artists/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfstandard.com/2024/04/27/san-</span><span class="invisible">francisco-hunters-point-shipyard-artists/</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>An early plan for long-term burial of spent nuclear fuel was to put it in the Arctic since the ice was "permanent" </p><p>"The US Left Nuclear Waste Around The World, Now Climate Change May Unearth It"</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sts</span></a></span> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenland</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.iflscience.com/the-us-left-nuclear-waste-around-the-world-now-climate-change-may-unearth-it-73226" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">iflscience.com/the-us-left-nuc</span><span class="invisible">lear-waste-around-the-world-now-climate-change-may-unearth-it-73226</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>Today (March 1) is the 70th anniversary of the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Bravo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bravo</span></a> Test, the largest nuclear weapon test ever conducted by the US, on <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Bikini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bikini</span></a> Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It was a radiological disaster that resulted in the irradiation and forced displacement of whole communities. </p><p>Here is an article I wrote 7 years ago about how Bravo put the word <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/fallout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallout</span></a> into our lexicon. </p><p>"The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene" </p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sts</span></a></span> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearTest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTest</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317011763_The_Bravo_Test_and_the_Death_and_Life_of_the_Global_Ecosystem_in_the_Early_Anthropocene" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">researchgate.net/publication/3</span><span class="invisible">17011763_The_Bravo_Test_and_the_Death_and_Life_of_the_Global_Ecosystem_in_the_Early_Anthropocene</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>“Sunken Radioactive WWII Ship Rediscovered In Ocean Near Farallon Islands”</p><p>3/3</p><p> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Farallon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Farallon</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OperationCrossroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OperationCrossroads</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/BikiniAtoll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BikiniAtoll</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/HuntersPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HuntersPoint</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/SF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SF</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTesting</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/radioactive-ww-ii-ship-rediscovered-in-ocean-near-farallon-islands/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/</span><span class="invisible">radioactive-ww-ii-ship-rediscovered-in-ocean-near-farallon-islands/</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>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. </p><p>They later sunk the irradiated ships at the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Farallon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Farallon</span></a> Islands off the coast of San Francisco, which is now the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge. </p><p>2/3</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OperationCrossroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OperationCrossroads</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/BikiniAtoll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BikiniAtoll</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/HuntersPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HuntersPoint</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/SF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SF</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTesting</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>"Pacific Islands Forum chair says region must revisit its anti-nuclear treaty"</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTests</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/07/pacific-islands-forum-chair-says-region-must-revisit-its-anti-nuclear-treaty?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-3" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2023/nov</span><span class="invisible">/07/pacific-islands-forum-chair-says-region-must-revisit-its-anti-nuclear-treaty?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-3</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>Selecting the irradiated:</p><p>The US conducted 1,054 nuclear tests.</p><p>88% were conducted inside the US at the Nevada Test Site. </p><p>8% were conducted in the Marshall Islands. </p><p>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 damage and radiation than the domestic tests.</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWarHist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWarHist</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sts</span></a></span></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>"America's forgotten nuclear migration: The Marshallese displaced by US bomb testing face new challenges"</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearTest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTest</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/americas-forgotten-nuclear-migration-micronesians-displaced-us-bomb/story?id=101328719" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abcnews.go.com/International/a</span><span class="invisible">mericas-forgotten-nuclear-migration-micronesians-displaced-us-bomb/story?id=101328719</span></a></p>
dr bwinbwin<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://hcommons.social/@bojacobs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bojacobs</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sts</span></a></span> </p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bravo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bravo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTesting</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IrradiatedPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IrradiatedPeoples</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/STS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BikiniAtoll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BikiniAtoll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarshallIslands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarshallIslands</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>"Marshall Islands calls for US to pay more compensation over nuclear tests.</p><p>Pacific nation plagued by environmental effects of 67 bomb tests between 1946 and 1958, including Castle Bravo detonation in 1954"</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/13/marshall-islands-pacific-us-nuclear-bomb-test-payment?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2023/jul</span><span class="invisible">/13/marshall-islands-pacific-us-nuclear-bomb-test-payment?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>1/1</p><p>This article is a complete hatchet job.</p><p>"$59 Million, Gone: How Bikini Atoll Leaders Blew Through U.S. Trust Fund"</p><p>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."</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTesting</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/BikiniAtoll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BikiniAtoll</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/nuclearhumanities" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nuclearhumanities</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/world/asia/bikini-atoll-resettlement-fund.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2023/05/03/world/a</span><span class="invisible">sia/bikini-atoll-resettlement-fund.html</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>The brutal yields of ordering pilots to fly through nuclear detonation clouds to gather particles on filters for later analysis. </p><p>"Element Hunting in a Nuclear Storm: A fighter pilot’s tragic flight into a nuclear explosion leads to the discovery of two elements."</p><p>"The pilots couldn’t fly through the top of the cloud, so they would have to make their run through the stem—a swirling cauldron of unpredictable winds, heat, and radiation that was thick with sand and coral from Elugelab’s remains."</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearWeapon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapon</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sts</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/nuclearhumanities" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nuclearhumanities</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/element-hunting-in-a-nuclear-storm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencehistory.org/distillatio</span><span class="invisible">ns/element-hunting-in-a-nuclear-storm</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>Today is Nuclear Victims and Survivors Remembrance Day in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. This commemorates the aftermath of the Bravo test of an h-bomb by the US in 1954 at Bikini Atoll. Hundreds of Marshallese children and adults developed radiation sickness and later radiogenic diseases because of exposures to this fallout cloud. Here it is 30 minutes after the test, beginning to spread deadly levels of radiation across the mid-Pacific. </p><p>The US later calculated that the fallout from Bravo could have killed tens of millions of human beings. Today, multiple Marshallese atolls are still too contaminated for permanent habitation. The US followed up this radiological disaster by testing five more h-bombs in the Marshall Islands over the next several months. It was treated as a nuclear sacrifice zone, and for the Marshallese, the Cold War was a limited nuclear war. </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sts</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/nuclearhumanities" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nuclearhumanities</span></a></span> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearWeapon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapon</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/fallout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallout</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Bravo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bravo</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>A short video introduction to my book *Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha* published by Yale University Press in 2022.</p><p>Discusses the global distribution of radioactive fallout from nuclear weapon tests and nuclear power accidents, and the impact this had on downwind communities.</p><p>Book website link on my profile page</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/nuclearhumanities" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nuclearhumanities</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sts</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/hibakusha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hibakusha</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWarHist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWarHist</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTesting</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Hiroshima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hiroshima</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Kazakhstan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kazakhstan</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Anthropocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropocene</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://vimeo.com/661846613" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">vimeo.com/661846613</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>"US nears new cooperation deals with Pacific Island nations"</p><p>US continues to dismiss responsibility for radiological contamination from testing H-bombs in the Marshall Islands, or any obligation for remediation.</p><p>"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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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."</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Pacific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pacific</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWarHist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWarHist</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sts</span></a></span> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Runit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Runit</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/DOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOE</span></a></p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/politics-china-marshall-islands-palau-cadbe13c8cf26dd8b117bca686e06bba" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/politics-ch</span><span class="invisible">ina-marshall-islands-palau-cadbe13c8cf26dd8b117bca686e06bba</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>"US military atomic cleanup crews were sent out in the wake of American nuclear testing, and many paid a heavy price, veterans say"</p><p>Business Insider: <a href="https://shrtm.nu/nAsE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">shrtm.nu/nAsE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>"Ken Brownell, who was a carpenter when he served in the military in the late 1970s, was sent to the Marshall Islands in 1977 to build a base camp for hundreds of soldiers assigned to cleanup operations. These cleanup efforts involved a concrete dome that was built on <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Runit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Runit</span></a> Island, one of 40 islands that make up <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Enewetak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enewetak</span></a> Atoll, which was used to deposit soil and debris contaminated by radiation. </p><p>The goal, Brownell said, was supposedly to make the area habitable again for the Marshallese people after all the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> testing that happened during the US occupation. </p><p>But despite the US military's efforts to clean up the islands, Brownell said there was one, massive problem — it just couldn't be done"</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/nuclearhumanities" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nuclearhumanities</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sts</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/coldwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coldwar</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/EnvHist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvHist</span></a></p>
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