• Flying Squid
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    36 months ago

    Not really the last considering both the U.S. and the Soviets had their troops march into the radioactive cloud during tests to see what would happen.

    • Irremarkable
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      146 months ago

      Not to mention there’s got to be at least a handful of the people on pacific islands we screwed over with tests such as Castle Bravo left.

      • Flying Squid
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        66 months ago

        Definitely. A bunch of indigenous Pacific Islanders were exposed, as was a boat full of Japanese fishermen. The latter event was the inspiration for Godzilla.

          • Flying Squid
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            36 months ago

            One of the worst parts to me is that the U.S. had taken those islands in WWII and just decided, “these are ours forever now and we can do whatever the fuck we want with them,” which kind of sounds like the imperialism they were supposedly fighting.