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Mara Wilson@marawilson.bsky.social |
The stories of the “atomic veterans” are absolutely horrifying. They suffered debilitating illnesses and premature deaths, as did their children. This happened in the US, UK, and many other places. Like the Natives on test islands, and Downwinders, they have been ignored. Crimes against humanity.
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Ed Morrish
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my english teacher’s dad was ordered to fly his plane through a mushroom cloud, giving him the cancers that killed him
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Claire 🐝
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Studs Terkel's "The Good War" is full of stories from every type of person affected by the horrors of WWII, but the ones about the US servicemen who were unwitting test subjects for the effects of fallout and then (thru the 1980s) totally ignored by the gov when they got sick were some of the worst
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Jon Arnesen
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I’m a bit disappointed Nightbreaker: Advance to Ground Zero isn’t streaming anywhere, like: ever
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marlo
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i was going to reply about downwinders until my brain hit the word in your post
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Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness The Charlie Lama
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I'm reminded of the John Wayne turkey "The Conqueror." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Con...
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Anna Rompage
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Speaker of the house (and major hoofwanking bunglefuck) Rep Mike Johnson, is refusing to bring a bipartisan senate bill to provide healthcare to members of the Navajo nation that were routinely exposed to radiation from nuclear tests
American Exceptionalism
nativenewsonline.net/currents/nav...
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@richardckeller.bsky.social
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And at French testing sites in Algeria and Polynesia.
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@teelzee.bsky.social
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Also includes the Marines who went into Hiroshima after the blast. Uncle had a cancer never documented anywhere in the world. Doctors linked it to his radiation exposure.
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Dag.
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Went to a protest at the Western Shoshone reservation right next to the underground nuclear testing site in Nevada. The testimony of the down winders was heartbreaking .
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deltigre.bsky.social
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I occasionally hyperfixate on nuclear trivia and only recently found out that the last US nuclear tests were conducted in 1992!
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Tucker Drake
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My middle brother's FIL was at the Bikini Atoll tests. I hope someone recorded his stories about being there.
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Nicholas Slayton
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I've written about some of these atomic vets and the testing. It's so messed up. It wasn't until 1990 that even the bare minimum of measures and benefits were given. Absolutely shameful. taskandpurpose.com/history/army...
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@susandathome.bsky.social
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There’s so much injustice it feels like we’ll never catch up
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cornelius75.bsky.social
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France was also testing like crazy. I worked in WMD field for government. There is nothing worse out there than radiation poisoning. A couple biologicals and chemicals come close.
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Revontulet (they/them)
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My great-grandpa was a welder at LLNL from the time it opened and I'm pretty sure he got cancer from the stuff he worked on. He ended up living into his 90s.
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Ed Burmila
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Don't worry, they learned their lesson*
*later made guys wait in trenches and get out and run toward a nuclear blast taskandpurpose.com/history/army...
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Justin Noormand
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My high art teacher’s dad was at this test as a sailor and died of eye and brain cancer before he hit 60. They were told that they could look at it if they wanted and he did.
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Alice
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My grandfather was in the army and there for UK nuclear tests. Died of cancer before I was even born.
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Martin Paulo
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If in Australia, this book is recommended (and shocking) reading:
www.hachette.com.au/frank-walker...
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David
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I wonder how they chose who had to be on deck and who could stay inside the ship?
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