On the anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we must listen to the few who can still speak to the horror nuclear weapons can inflict.
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.
The inhabitants of Tahiti, where the Olympic surfing event was, have used the attention to their suffering of the French atomic tests there. They did around 200 of them.
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.
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.
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.
The inhabitants of Tahiti, where the Olympic surfing event was, have used the attention to their suffering of the French atomic tests there. They did around 200 of them.
For people who like data visualized, here’s an overview of all atomic explosions since Trinity: https://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY?si=XPWeZ9IXU4X4x1QD
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.