To learn more, read Kate Brown's *Plutopia*
"Mayak: The secret nuclear power plant that poisoned Russians for decades"
#Mayak #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #Russia #ColdWarHist @histodons @sts
https://bigthink.com/the-past/mayak-secret-nuclear-plant-poisoned-russians-decades/
Selecting the irradiated (one of the chapter titles of my book):
The US conducted 1,054 nuclear weapon tests.
88% were conducted inside the US at the Nevada Test Site.
8% were conducted in the Marshall Islands.
This chart shows that the US concentrated the much larger hydrogen bomb tests in the Marshall Islands, and that the 8% of tests there released far more blast, heat and radiation than the domestic tests.
This is a form of nuclear colonialism.
#RMI #nuclear #NuclearWeapons #ColdWarHist #colonialism @histodons @sts
This is a fascinating story.
Why dozens of WW2 Hurricane fighters have been found, stripped and buried in a forested ravine near Kyiv.
Photo kept by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, dated Oct. 23, 1962, shows an MK-28 hydrogen bomb being transported to an aircraft for loading at #Kadena Air Base on #Okinawa
What "survival" looked like in Cold War America
A 1950 air-raid drill at Portland’s Lincoln High School
This photograph originally appeared in the *Oregon Journal* as an illustration for an article by Dan Flanagan, titled “Portland Schools Map Air Raid Precautions.”
#ColdWarHist @histodons @nuclearhumanities @sts #CivilDefense
Military-Industrial-Logic
A short video introduction to my book *Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha* published by Yale University Press in 2022.
Discusses the global distribution of radioactive fallout from nuclear weapon tests and nuclear power accidents, and the impact this had on downwind communities.
Book website link on my profile page
@nuclearhumanities @histodons @sts
#nuclear #hibakusha #ColdWarHist #NuclearPower #NuclearTesting #Hiroshima #RMI #Kazakhstan #Anthropocene #environment #NuclearWaste
2 primary forms of nuclear #colonialism:
First two are: resource extraction (uranium mining) from indigenous lands; & the #colonialism of defining a place as "empty" and inhabited by "nobody"
This can be seen in the siting of #nuclear weapon testing sites, and nuclear production sites (plutonium & uranium processing)
H-bomb tests were so big, the three NATO #nuclear weapon states all tested them on Pacific islands and atolls (#NATO vs. the #Pacific)
Soviet Union defined Kazakhs as "nomads" & detonated almost 500 nukes there
#France & #UK never tested a single weapon in their own countries, only in colonial or #postcolonial spaces
China tested in #Uyghur territory
Millions of people lived close to nuclear weapon test sites and production sites, they experienced harm, displacement & contamination of their homes & food sources. Many remain contaminated today.
These are among the global #hibakusha
Bo Jacobs
Dervishe the Grey
Matt Potter