Anon Presents: The Endless Nuclear Fallout

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We are Anonymous.

A film about the creation of the Atom Bomb, has shone a global spot-light on the dawn of U.S. nuclear weapons tests. In the Marshall Islands, where numerous of those earth-shattering blasts happened, people have never been able to forget.

At first glance, the aquamarine waters that surround the Marshall Islands seem like paradise. But this idyllic Pacific scene, hides a very dark secret. It was the location of 67 nuclear detonations, as part of U.S. military tests, during the cold war, between 1946, and 1958.

The bombs were exploded above ground and underwater, on Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, including one device, that was 1,100 times larger than the Hiroshima atom bomb. Chernobyl-like levels of radiation forced hundreds from their homes. Bikini Atoll remains deserted. At the U.S. government’s urging, residents have begun returning slowly to Enewetak Atoll.

Today, there is almost little visible evidence of the tests on the islands, except for a 377 feet wide cement dome that the locals nicknamed, "the Tomb," and for a good reason of course.

Built in the late 1970, and now aged and cracking, the huge concrete lid on Runit Island, covers more than 90,000 cubic meters, or roughly, 35 Olympic sized swimming pools of radioactive soil and nuclear waste. Unbeknownst to the Marshallese people, the U.S. shipped the waste from Nevada, where it was also testing nuclear weapons on Native American land.

The legacy of America’s nuclear testing on Indigenous communities, both on the U.S. mainland and its territories, has come under renewed scrutiny, with the release of the film, a film about the physicist named Julius Robert Oppenheimer, who led the development, of the atomic bomb.

Although his team tested the nuclear weapons on Native American land, there were 928 large scale nuclear weapons tests in Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, during the cold war, dispersing huge clouds of radioactive material into Our atmosphere. The film never mentions the impact of the testing it had on Our Atmosphere, or on the local Native Americans.

The film completely ignores the experiences of the people of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation, which many described as, “the most bombed nation on earth”. The health impacts on the people, have never been investigated, they never received an apology, let alone, any kind of compensation. People has complained about cancer disease from generation to generation that still continues to this day.

If you ask anyone in Marshall Islands, if there is a legacy of nuclear impact on their health, the answer would be yes. These cancers because of nuclear radiation, are now hereditary amongst the locals.

The U.S. blatantly lies, saying that the Marshall Islands are safe. The U.S. seized the islands from Japan, in 1944, anyone can connect the dots to why Japan attacked the military base in Pearl Harbor, never the less, the U.S. so-called granted the islands independence in 1979, but the fledgling nation, remained in “free association” with the U.S. under this system, along with Micronesia, and Palau, the Marshall Islands supposed to be self-governing, but economically remain largely dependent on Washington, which still retains a military presence there. Today, the islands continue to use the U.S. dollar, and American aid still represents a large percentage of its GDP.

In 1988, an independent international tribunal was established to adjudicate between the two countries, and it later ordered the U.S. to pay 2.3 billion dollars to the Marshall Islands for healthcare and resettlement costs.

The U.S. government has refused, arguing that its liabilities ended when it paid 600 million dollars in 1990. In 1998, the U.S. stopped providing medical care for the cancer-stricken islanders, leaving many, in financial hardship.

The islanders are pushing for the 2.3 billion dollars, and a cleanup of the Runit Dome, which is at risk of collapsing, due to rising sea levels, and the natural aging of the concrete structure.

According to a 2019 investigation, many U.S. military personnel present at the construction of the Runit Dome, realized, that radioactive material was leaking from it, and would continue to do so, but were instructed not to alert the Marshallese government.

The threat to the Tomb is particularly acute because the islands, which lie just 6 and a half above sea level on average, are very vulnerable to rising sea levels. The country’s capital, Majuro, is highly likely to be at risk of frequent flooding.

The U.S. says, it has discharged its responsibilities to the Marshall Islands, and because the dome is on Marshallese land, the responsibility is not on Washington to fix it.

It is not clear what will happen to the environment when the Tomb crumbles, and has also been hard to track how the ecosystem has behaved over time, as there’s just not many people on Bikini Atoll, to even casually monitor the changes.

The effects of radiation on the Marshall Islands, are long-lasting, and have caused irreversible environmental contamination.

The locals warn visitors, not to eat the coconuts, which are radioactive due to the contaminated groundwater, or the coconut crabs that feed on them. They also urge not to drink the water..

In general, it has been shown that nuclear blasts represent an extreme threat to local biodiversity. A 1973 study on nuclear testing in Alaska, found both immediate harm and long-term damage to marine species, fish exploded when their gas-filled swim bladders reacted to the change in pressure underwater, and hundreds of sea otters were also killed instantly.

Researchers have recently found that sea turtle shells can be used to study nuclear contamination, with traces of uranium found in animals not born when testing in the Pacific Islands ended. The turtles are thought to accumulate human-made radionuclide in their bony outer shell, which is usually made of keratin, through the food chain by eating uranium-contaminated algae.

Japan recently announced it would start dumping waste from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which had meltdowns in 2011, into the ocean.

Do not trust any governments that says releasing nuclear material into the water is safe. Anybody who talks about nuclear being safe, are lying, this includes the U.S., which of course promised the islands, were safe to live in. Numerous family members who have died of cancer, are concerned about the long-term impacts of radiation. The people have nowhere to go, they have to stay there, exposing themselves on a daily basis, cause they have no choice.

We are Anonymous.

We are Legion.

We do not Forgive.

We do not Forget.

To the innocent people of Marshall Islands, We hear your cries, We will stand with you in solidarity, for you have been betrayed by the corrupt corporate paid united states government.

To the corrupt corporate paid united states government.

Expect Us.