The USA PotatoScientists Say Public Engagement and Pressure Are Key to Reducing Nuclear Risks
Nuclear experts are urging the public to demand concrete steps to reduce the risk of devastation due to nuclear weapons.
FreddyB Aviation Photographylooking East at the Project Adiago Nuclear weapon test site. This 3000 foot shaft was completed as a follow on to the Project Faultless detonation in 1968. it was abandoned and no test occurred, Nye County, Nevada August 2024 #adiago #fautless #nuclear #atomic #nye #Nevada #nucleartesting #bomb #abandoned
Hacker NewsHow the Atomic Tests Looked Like from Los Angeles
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/09/how-atomic-tests-looked-like-from-los.html
#HackerNews #AtomicTests #LosAngeles #History #NuclearTesting #AmusingPlanet #ColdWar
DoomsdaysCW#Wikipedia - Origin of the concept of a #SacrificeZone
"According to the United Nations Human Rights Council [#UNHRC], the term Sacrifice zone emerged in the #ColdWar period when #NuclearTesting, conducted by #colonial powers, such as the #UnitedStates, #France, the #UnitedKingdom, and the #SovietUnion transformed sections of land into #uninhabitable and highly #radioactive areas. Sacrifice zones can be defined as communities that experience dangerous levels of hazardous contamination and waste exposure. Sacrifice zones are linked to #racism, #oppression, #patriarchy, and #colonialism, as they are hubs of #pollution that disproportionately target and harm the physical and mental health of marginalized groups who face overlapping forms of #oppressions.
According to Helen Huntington Smith, the term was first used in the U.S. discussing the long-term effects of #StripMining #coal in the American West in the 1970s. The National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering Study Committee on the Potential for Rehabilitating Lands Surface Mined for Coal in the Western United States produced a 1973 report that introduced the term, finding:
In each zone the probability of rehabilitating an area depends upon the land use objectives, the characteristics of the site, the technology available, and the skill with which this technology is applied. At the extremes, if surface mined lands are declared national sacrifice areas, all ecological zones have a high probability of being successfully rehabilitated. If, however, complete restoration is the objective, rehabilitation in each zone has no probability of success.
Similarly in 1975, Genevieve Atwood wrote in Scientific American:
Surface mining without #reclamation removes the land forever from #productive use; such land can best be classified as a #NationalSacrifice area. With successful reclamation, however, surface mining can become just one of a series of land uses that merely interrupt a current use and then return the land to an equivalent potential productivity or an even higher one.
Huntington Smith wrote in 1975, "The Panel that issued the cautious and scholarly National Academy of Sciences report unwittingly touched off a verbal bombshell" with the phrase National Sacrifice Area; "The words exploded in the Western press overnight. Seized upon by a people who felt themselves being served up as 'national sacrifices', they became a watchword and a rallying cry." The term sparked public debate, including among #environmentalists and politicians such as future Colorado governor Richard Lamm.
The term continued to be used in the context of strip mining until at least 1999: '#WestVirginia has become an environmental sacrifice zone'."
#JoeManchin #BigOil #BigCoal #StripMining #EnvironmentalRacism #CoalMining #Appalachia #PollutionSacrificeZones #CorporateColonialism
#ClimateChange May Unearth #ColdWar-Era #NuclearWaste Stored by the U.S. in Other Countries
A new report finds that melting ice and rising sea levels could disturb #RadioactiveContamination left over from American nuclear tests after World War II
Tara Wu - Reporter
March 6, 2024
"Rising global temperatures could unearth Cold War-era nuclear waste created by the United States and stored in other countries, posing potential issues for the environment and local inhabitants, according to a new report.
"An assessment conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released earlier this year examined nuclear waste in the #MarshallIslands, #Greenland and #Spain, three locations with radioactive contamination resulting from American nuclear activity in the decades following World War II. Climate change could cause this nuclear waste to enter the environment, as warming temperatures melt ice sheets that contain radioactive liquid and raise sea levels that could pollute food and water sources with toxic waste, per the study.
"This lingering contamination came from nuclear weapon detonations, including #HydrogenBombs, and accidents at numerous sites around the world. Often, the U.S. government stored this waste near the sites of detonation, Robert Hayes, a nuclear engineer at North Carolina State University, says to Julia Jacobo of ABC News. In Greenland, officials disposed of nuclear waste in the ice sheet, and in the Marshall Islands, they placed it in a container with a concrete cap.
" 'The military was in the rush of the Cold War,' Hayes tells the publication. 'In hindsight, they could have done a better job.' "
#NuclearWaste #NuclearAccidents #AtomicBombTesting #NuclearPollution #ClimateChange #RisingSeaLevels #NuclearTesting #Contamination #WaterIsLife #NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWeapons
2025 #UraniumFilmFestival - #BobbyBrownHomelands - Living with the Legacy of #British #NuclearTesting
#Australia, 2015, Produced and Directed by Kim Mavromatis and Quenten Agius, MAV Media in Association with NITV (National Indigenous TV Australia). Documentary, 5 min
"In the 1950’s and 1960’s the Australian government authorised British Nuclear testing at #EmuField and #Maralinga in Outback South Australia. We journey with #Antikirrinya Elder, #IngkamaBobbyBrown to his homelands in outback #SouthAustralia where he explains the legacy of living with British Nuclear testing - how he witnessed the first tests on the Australian mainland at Emu Field (1953) and experienced the devastating affects of radioactive fallout on his family, people and country. This is the first time Bobby has spoken out about what he witnessed when he was a boy - what happened to his family and country and the people who went missing - during British Nuclear testing.
"Dedicated to Bobby Brown - keeping his connection to country and story alive”.
" 'Happy to have the film screen at the Uranium Film Fest, Las Vegas Nevada. An appropriate place for Bobby’s film to be screened. Bobby would have loved that - he passed away in 2023.' Kim Mavromatis.
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHWnQWmZjP8
#NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearWeaponsTesting #NuclearWeapons #NuclearTesting #Outback #InternationalUraniumFilmFestival
Living with the legacy of British Nuclear testing: Bobby Brown
VTC News Bot🇺🇸 Mỹ quyết tâm nối lại thử nghiệm vũ khí hạt nhân trong bối cảnh Trump tuyên bố nối lại thử nghiệm. Mới đây, nước này đã thực hiện vụ phóng thử tên lửa đạn đạo xuyên lục địa Minuteman III không mang vũ khí, thể hiện cam kết duy trì khả năng răn đe hạt nhân. Động thái này phản ánh chiến lược quân sự mới của Mỹ trong bối cảnh căng thẳng toàn cầu hiện tại. #NuclearTesting #MinutemanIII #TrumpPolicy #NuclearDeterrence #QuânSựMỹ #ThửNghiệmHạtNhân #RănĐeHạtNhân #TênLửaĐạnĐạo #ChínhSáchTrump
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Daily Times - Latest Pakistan News, World, Business, Sports, LifestylePutin orders officials to draft proposals for possible nuclear tests
Ulfh3dnarU.S. President Donald Trump:
"Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis."
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev:
"No one knows what Trump meant about ‘nuclear testing’ (he probably doesn’t himself). But he's the president of the United States. And the consequences of such words are inescapable."
