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.
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.
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.