DoomsdaysCWNov 15

2025 #UraniumFilmFestival - IN EXILE

USA, 2023, Director: Nathan Fitch, Producer: Angela Edward, Documentary, English, 12 min.

"In Exile explores the US nuclear legacy in the Pacific through the lens of members of the #Marshallese community in Arkansas. The Marshallese were told their islands in Micronesia were essential for the good of mankind for #OperationCrossroads, a series of nuclear tests in #BikiniAtoll commencing in 1946. In a highly choreographed scene photographed by an array of military cameras, the Marshallese begin the process of leaving their home islands for an exile that has now lasted 77 years. They could not know that their islands would be #vaporized, their waters #poisoned, and their bodies used as test subjects by the US government."

Full documentary:
https://www.pbs.org/video/in-exile-p2nnza/

FMI:
https://www.nathan-fitch.com/

#InExile #AtomicBomb #AtomicBombTesting #MarshallIslands #NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearWar #CulturalGenocide #InternationalUraniumFilmFestival

REEL SOUTH | In Exile | Season 9 | Episode 903

Marshallese migrants in Arkansas explore the US nuclear legacy.

Show threadBo JacobsDec 13, 2023

“Sunken Radioactive WWII Ship Rediscovered In Ocean Near Farallon Islands”

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#Farallon #OperationCrossroads #BikiniAtoll #RMI #nuclear #ColdWar #HuntersPoint #SF #NuclearTesting

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/radioactive-ww-ii-ship-rediscovered-in-ocean-near-farallon-islands/

Sunken Radioactive WWII Ship Rediscovered In Ocean Near Farallon Islands

Scientists have rediscovered a mostly intact World War II aircraft carrier used in atomic bomb tests and then sunk off the Northern California coast decades ago.

CBS San Francisco
Show threadBo JacobsDec 13, 2023

Most of this material is from attempts to “decontaminate" ships irradiated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. You may have seen images of the navy ships beneath the low hanging mushroom cloud. The US Navy towed many of these ships to the Bay Area and one by one tried to decontaminate them at Hunter's Point. They failed to decontaminate them, but succeeded in contaminating the shipyard.

They later sunk the irradiated ships at the #Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco, which is now the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge.

2/3

#OperationCrossroads #BikiniAtoll #RMI

#nuclear #ColdWar #HuntersPoint #SF #NuclearTesting