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watch as we ring in the new year why column is so predicting a rocky ride for the global economy and from china to the middle east find out why and where financial storms could be for. counting the cost on the al-jazeera. the marshall islands is a tiny pacific nation with a very big problem. once ground zero for america's cold war atomic testing it's been left with a toxic radioactive legacy. now rising sea levels threaten to small the islands and if that happens deadly nuclear waste will be released into the ocean. and steve chair on this episode a one when we investigate how one of the world's smallest countries is paying for

the actions of a global superpower. we're halfway between australia and hawaii. in the middle of a seemingly endless pacific ocean. below us chains of mostly uninhabited islands that together form the nation of the marshall islands. which is not a castle no doubt the british army right. with our bombs picked up by spending christmas carried out stop making history. spread over two million square kilometers of the central pacific the marshall islands is a scattering of more than a thousand islands and eyelets. few people have heard of in

a we talk but it's the ground zero of us nuclear testing in the pacific. the welcome sign he said what we've come to see but when you know what it really is a few would want to visit this place. the settle is a roof over the islands so remote that there's no regular transport in or out it'll be a week before our plane returns if we're lucky. it's a stunning place. hides a. secret. i. i. i. i. this is

a place whose atomic past is. seed into its present the people of in a way top were forced into exile by the atomic fool and allowed to return after three decades a new generation is learning about the traditions and customs of this place. they have also been told about america's top sick legacy and how it lies under a giant dime. they are interesting some of the understand that we have a voice in our you know island that is what people might think. they know that there's a tomb. because they have been there so the dime you call of the time. honored as.

we sit out the next morning to see for ourselves. after nearly two hours we approach one of in a way talking assholes forty islands. what we've come to see is hard to spot from the beach only from the air can you get a true sense of the sky of what the united states military calls the dawn. is actually a dump it contains the toxic glyph to visit some of the most powerful atomic bombs in history america's cold war legacy it is a tomb of nuclear waste the dome is completely unlabeled there's no fence there no guards there people can go there if they want and there's nobody to stop but they know me up and make you write about them by the way i am glad i.

was. i. for nine hundred forty six to nine hundred fifty eight the united states detonated dozens of atomic bombs in the marshall islands. and was in a way talkies hardly knowing its closest neighbor three hundred kilometers to the east became synonymous with nuclear fallout. its name is became. my own. the water you wave coming. from the kids. right now i don't think i'll be able to come in it's just not clean enough for us it's not. one of the

countries loves traditional never gave his elson killen is adrift living in exile because he's not allowed to return home to bikini. ahead of the atomic testing there in the one nine hundred forty s. the united states told elson killings family and the one hundred sixty seven people of his asshole that they had a duty to the world to leave their islands i was it was a moment film by the military's p.r. unit they wanted to take. all right now james when you tell them that the united states government now wants to transmit right to stop the force and that's something good a man got and that this experiment here at it are the first step in that direction i am a hot five. ready good idea. i ever read it

i wear you down damn it. thank you good at everything being and god and it cannot be other than go there was and here by the way you had i was thinking of the microwave version of your i've added the. the oh. well i mean yeah. there was the impacts of twelve years of nuclear testing in the marshall islands included increased rates of thyroid and other cancers and the permanent exile of people from their home islands . in one thousand nine hundred six as part of a deal to give the marshall islands independence the us paid one hundred fifty million dollars later an independent tribunals awarded more than two billion dollars to victims of the testing program less than four million was it

a paid. the tribunals office in the capital merger zero is no longer operating with most claims unresolved sitting in files gathering dust. the us government policy on the nuclear weapons legacy in the marshall islands is to simply downgrade in dismiss health hazards as not exist or significant. johnson is the publisher of the marshall islands journal the country's only newspaper for three decades he's been a passionate advocate for the local people his wife darlene kaiju was a famous nucleus of five who died of cancer and age just forty five it really makes us wonder if marshall i don't wonders will ever get justice from the nuclear weapons tests that were conducted here and justice is the right word it's really

important to understand the. that a lot of nuclear contaminated material was tossed into a crater left over from a bomb test a coral atoll essentially and a coral atoll by its nature is porous. when the us was getting ready to clean up i believe in the one nine hundred seventy s. they picked the pit that had been left by one of the smaller atomic explosions and dumped a lot of this plutonium and other radioactive waste into the pit and covered it over with an eighteen inch thick dome and left. the dome was never meant to be anything but a temporary solution to the problem of atomic waste at almost every stage of its construction safety was sector fi's to save money. michael gerard is

a us climate change specialist who's visited the dome the bottom of the dome is just what was left behind by the nuclear weapons exposing. its permeable soil there was no effort to line it and therefore the seawater is inside the dome already they see sometimes washes over it and you know you know our storm and united states government has acknowledged that a major typhoon could break it apart and cause all of the radiation in it to disperse. you can see why ruin its remoteness made it seem like a good place for the and it's contaminated contents but like most of the islands of the marshal's route it is bailey a major above sea level at its highest point. when this dome was built in the late

one nine hundred seventy s. there was no factoring in sea level rises caused by climate change now every day when the tide rolls out as it is now radioactive isotopes from underneath the dharm roll out with it that is the connection between each and the climate change which it will be very devastation even. if it were really it we're not talking just a marshall islands we're talking. sweet ocean. i think it's really telling. that the ocean is rising and it's and it's it's making this nuclear waste leak out because in a lot of ways this climate change issue has also been revived revitalizing a lot of conversations about our nuclear legacy every time someone talks about climate change you can't ignore our nuclear legacy as well it's link. is a poet and climate change activist. she's proud of her heritage. it's

my home it's where i'm from that's where my family's from my ancestors they've been here for thousands of years and and there's also just nothing like you and your else and it's part of why. you have. a rising leader of a nation kathy jett no kid you know was invited to the twenty fourteen united nations climate change summit in new york to speak about. the front line in the battle against rising sea levels the marshall islands encompasses more than two million square kilometers of ocean i mean it's the united nations these are world leaders from all over and it was the first time that i was able to share something that i was i cared about you know something about the islands and what she shared was a poem about climate change dear much of

a poem addressed to her infant daughter who are a seven month old son rise a smile or bald as an egg and bald as the buddha you are thighs that are thunder shrieks that are lightning so excited for bananas hugs and our morning walks along the loop. i want to tell you about the. against the sunrise men say that one day that look would devour you they say it will not the shoreline to at the roots of your bread fruit trees gulp down roads the walls and crunch through your island shattered bones. don't cry mommy promises you no one will calm and devour you no one is drowning no one's moving no one's losing their homeland no one's going to become a climate change refugees. in a place known for so do speeches and poker face diplomacy heavy jet gnocchi genius

pledge to her daughter to fight climate change moved me to tears. i mean when they all stood up i kind of thought they were just being polite but i just found out later that's not that doesn't happen all the time. some estimates put the sea level rise here in excess of sixty centimeters by the end of the century that's enough to inundate three quarters of the country so. now we're on alert every time there's a high tide is the water will come over and flood our houses you know crushed and homes are destroyed homes it will dry the crops and you know that didn't ever happen before you know we're getting a lot of more extreme weathers like droughts too and so it's just gotten a lot worse in the past couple years. it will kill a reef so we kill so reef kill so fish kill so food and you know marshall has

a very very limited line so this really nothing for us to survive on so i would you know i was very very short time i cannot give you a year but. we will gradually probably start moving to the clock is ticking before you it really it is ticking. for many marshallese the dome on rumor tile and remains a potent symbol of the threat of climate change it may be made from half meter thick concrete panels but as we've seen elsewhere the ocean is likely to win out over concrete every time. the radiation levels of the people of in a we talk the supposed to be monitored here in this space age us built lab on the main island but when we visit the machine for assessing radioactive exposure isn't

working. and as we're about to find out it's not just the people of the marshall islands who are living with the fallout from what happened here all those years ago. this was the side of the largest nuclear cleanup in united states history four thousand young soldiers toiled here for years to fill in the bomb crater underneath this dime among the more than eighty thousand cubic meters of contaminated soil and debris with plutonium one of the most toxic substances on the planet. the many of the young soldiers who worked here there was a high price to pay. those young men and now in their fifty's and sixty's and few in the united states know storing. the suburban sprawl of less vegas feels like another world away

from the remote emptiness of in a way talk at all but the dawn is something former u.s. soldier g.-man drole can never forget and neither can he forgive i've never even heard of it only took an hour or two that there were forty three nuclear tests and it knows radioactive the story landed. everybody kind of pretty much flipped out on a phone though because right after the radioactive. i was told i was going to visit a tropical paradise for the last six months of the service. a specialist in the army's eighty foals in geneva talian mandrel was one of thousands of u.s. soldiers sent to help clean up in a way talk at all in the nine hundred seventy s. a thousand workers from the u.s. armed forces are giving the northern islands a facelift striving to dig and scrape away the radioactive soil and debris this

u.s. news story shows soldiers on in a week talk wearing radiation suits b.g. mandrel says this was just a show for the t.v. cameras there was no special gear issued we were just issued our normal oh warm weather here which we've been sure to teacher tat in the jungle been to nuts and were you given right away give decontamination truck no none whatsoever was there any safety equipment no if people do come back to rhode island they'll be risking perhaps the hottest radiation on earth this island won't be fit for human habitation again for at least twenty four thousand years unrooted island site of the daum soldiers were exposed to one of the most toxic substances known in the result of a bomb test gone wrong one of the attempted nuclear weapons explosions didn't work and so the who put tony and rather than having a nuclear blast was just broken apart by the conventional explosives leading to a about four hundred little chunks of put tony and that were spread all around the

top those four hundred chunks were put in plastic bags and tossed into the crater underneath the dime well they have this round of walk around pick up loose pieces for instance and just gather up whatever we could throw in a pile and i never had any clue that dust could literally get into your lungs. but these girls are dealing with every day all of us were. declassified u.s. government documents reveal that washington knew the troops would be exposed to put tiny i'm on router tile and this secret cable from one thousand nine hundred eighty two talks about the existence of solid plutonium bearing chunks on the island surface it warned that the quantity of plutonium was undoubtedly large and that a presented a new and serious concern. many of the

u.s. soldiers in particular who worked at and we have since come down with illnesses that they say were caused by their work there. jim mandrel is one of those soldiers for years he suffered from a myriad of complaints he says a link to his service on in a way talk he had as gallbladder out shortly after that a. seventy pound tumor cancerous tumor in his abdomen i suffer from roughly four you to forty five years old from going to. retire those rows far more alert of the watch and good news the problem for former cleanup workers like jim and raul is that unlike the other u.s. soldiers involved in the atomic tests the government does not recognize them as atomic veterans this means the four thousand clean up veterans have no special

health care coverage many lumbered with crippling medical bills washington argues safety precautions on in a way top or exemplary workers radiation exposure fell below recommended limits and that their illnesses and the time they spent on in a way talk and not linked i mean these people were in the army what choice that they are they were told go clean up any way they want. i think mostly they're trying to get health coverage medical care because they've got just out of some of them have terrible bills really high bill bills from from hospitals because of their treatment. there has never been a formal study of the health of in a way talk workers but one informal survey reported that hundreds suffered problems such as cancers brutal bones and birth defect seen their children. eleanor has a guy i didn't think i'd be sitting in a hospital you know tell yeah yeah little buster i just sitting on my. you feeling

. strange. i might have had some damages done to another part of my body when they were putting in the still i can arrange them in a way to veteran cain cassock knows all about hospital bills we meet in hawaii although by the time i arrived kane has been rushed to intensive care with a brain aneurism. as a twenty four year old he was working at a u.s. air force base in hawaii when he was asked if he was interested in running the military exchange on an idyllic pacific actual cold in a we talk. that's it my whole vision in life was to live on a deserted tropical south pacific island watch out what you tell the lord. it came through. this would be no posting to paradise not long after arriving on in a way talk came kazik realized he was living and working in the middle of

a messy nuclear cleanup one centered on the dime on routers island it was a very dirty operation and the same below calls that transported this filthy filthy filthy horrible atomic waste to ruin it the boys are on these boats you can see the crap going on their faces and their bodies you know you cannot get away from them. like you mandrel ken kesey says he was never given any safety gear old training he says the thousands of young men sent into the cleanup had no idea of what they were exposed to it's a total secret we didn't even know the guys didn't know none of those guys would would be in an area that's so contaminated if they knew about it and we were lied to and our boys work six month tours on a dirty island and the government says you are never there. has undergone nearly forty surgeries for cancerous lesions which he blames on his time and i know we

talk but he in g. mandrel count themselves lucky america dumped all. they're worse rubbish to the marshallese and abandon them with it's a disgusting shame. and it. is. it that makes us look bad. m f the natives express to the people of the united states about welcome in their simplicity and their pleasant past and that could destroy them and willing to cooperate although they don't understand the world of nuclear energy and imagine we do. ruin a dome embodies injustices in many different ways. the fact that all these weapons were supposed to there the fact that this plutonium was left behind the fact that the workers who work there have not been compensated . and very importantly the fact that the entire nation is endangered by sea level

rise which is caused mostly by the greenhouse gas emissions the major abating countries for which the us was historically number one these are an accumulation of the justices. these are situations where the marshallese people are almost are you dick cheney pig or they're just seen as disposable we're seen as disposable in both of these situations we're disposable our lives no matter the war matters nuclear bombs matter our lives no matter no matter money matters gas not. profits not. it was one of the biggest bank robberies of modern times with over eighty million dollars stolen from bangladesh's central bank one of one east investigates how

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