material the capital budget and the american military base by the slums bikini and any attack the ground zero wrong lap contaminated and deserted. the marshall islands are scattered for hours southwest of honolulu this is no way from north america's point of view but a paradise if one intends to test atomic bombs. all . war are. all right again just tell us about the united states government now all of us to turn this right this stuff that force and are suffering good form and i want to limit it i want to get it in a. little group with

a lot. everything being and god help us figure out. over the twelve years of testing thirty three of the sixty seven devices that were tested here were bigger than the largest one ever tested in the eighteen of them were what are called megaton level devices in other words thousand kill it including the bravo test in one nine hundred fifty four fifteen megaton test thousand times more powerful and explosive yield than the hiroshima bomb. in what a normal yoshie one but there are no one and. it makes me angry that nobody knows what is your all my wrong what it is you. did to.

march first thousand nine hundred fifty four the islanders are amazed to see the sun rising in the west but the star is a thermonuclear bomb bravo irradiates the sky by the wind blows towards the atoll of brown that. m.m.m. on. yes i think so maybe i. was your age but they anybody noticed sleeping. right nights completely in my. when the labor. pool in thousand with scene that thing goes down from. around the crown. the sand our latest sand. and then don't need there is strong and true eyes everywhere and the ground was

small say and we would soon scare. it back they want to add to the body so we hide for several years and when we invest we see our way things were before well we the powder has no what it has meant to me. turned out to be a lot more powerful than they expected. they didn't bother to move the wrong collapse people because they said oh well it was basically too complicated logistically it had to take by this time permission from the department of interior and frankly it was to expect something it was just by accident that we even found out that that that won't let people have been powdered. the reason they found out

was there was a little japanese fishing trawler. that was also out there and they got dusted with radioactivity that drew the most headlines and never heard of it was called the lucky trick on. rushed. there and if they had. that. much well it's six months the operator had died but the people. they had a slow motion kind of effect they also had a lot of other. did they tell you and burn yes my mom sisters. are in from here. you couldn't be unaware that it was reported but. reported in a way which are a. rather cool we're doing this until. we're supposed to

reveal. the some of prickly. to the natives and it is so normal western history that it hardly. reason is. the american media became passionate about the overwhelming power and complacent about the victims of the cold. this is not the case for the scientific community. was they got the news they sent a team of doctors to examine the wrong people and be good at this continuously and are still doing that because they are such a living example of what it is like to experience them a bomb with the actual explosion so the wrong people are much more of an example

for the rest of the world than the actual balmy in who and nagasaki. obviously the all the mention of what happened in her shemale what happened in the marshall islands is very different it was chronic exposure for many years that's one explosion just a megatonnage was thousands of times what happened then so that's one aspect of people say well you can't really compare that because. there's just a difference in the whole sequence of events and the amount of radiation that happened when broadcast was a big watershed in the new year many scientists became concerned and actually i think a lot of the movement to stop nuclear weapons testing wasn't about the future of the bomb it was actually an environmental and health concern that this thing is affecting us and our children every day.

they started to give birth to monster like b. . and so many miscarriages and. reply foetuses and. my mom she has seven miscarriage and one time she had a baby that looked like great and that make me sad that i have a babysitter is a man or is not even a human being. in december two thousand and five the marshallese presented the american government with pictures of deformed babies born with gray hair and without ears the baby survived for only a few weeks the abnormal births that you've seen photographs of of recent children i don't know that those can be attributed to any exposure but no one is investigating to find out are they in general radiogenic or are they caused by

something else that's a question that may well remain unanswered. i am part of a program that the department of energy is involved in an apartment energy is part of u.s. government and so the medical program provides ongoing monitoring for radiation related illness for the people on the lab and you do it if you have one quick test these. but i mean yes birth defects. is about there in many ways and it is a classic line of plan and i think you have heard of other people like that even met i'm not sure if you're familiar with the bare seven report in this report it did say very clearly that there's genetic mutations that are changed biologically by radiation and they've shown it plants mice in bacteria so if you follow that through then there probably is genetic things that are transmitted by you know

enough radiation a much radiation that takes it didn't comment in there but in your mind you know being a woman would that affect your children i can see from the bare seventy port i don't know. it's never been showed to see yes but it's also been never shown to see. mainly by said of the woman who has at its many a woman the luger the silly face till you get a funny guy you know why is ninety points and why is that why i never i never even. close do you know that just because of the radiation rains when the survivors are told that their children. have no genetical effects of radiation has no genetic facts on the second and third and fourth and so on generations.

in their plain words so far. we don't trust we know. that they are genetic. i don't have any children of my own. three generations. the boys. to me she's my mother i mean she might have me in my blood one of which she says a reason i turn out to be like this. i want to be something i want to do something for my people because i know she is and how hard life. evelyn is homesick so when she can she visits her mother who lives in the general she has given up hope of ever living on wrong map the atmospheric testing spread radioactivity throughout the world mainly in the northern hemisphere not only near the test site but all over the world and we are still living with the long lived radioactive legacy of

that fallout we still have a strong term ninety in the dirt we have cesium one thirty seven we have plutonium and in the air we have carbon fourteen and it gets into the food and so every time we eat we have a little bit of the legacy of atmospheric testing. the national cancer institute indicates that the testing of nuclear weapons by both the united states as well as the soviet union and the other countries a test of nuclear weapons has by the year two thousand resulted in approximately four hundred thousand people who either have died will died prematurely of cancer. no space or time can stop the bombs rippling effects it's a boomerang drifting with the winds and the wind. down to the east disappear

hundreds of thousands of victims joined the japanese dead already in mass graves the nuclear arsenal claims more corpses than previously thought and it's not over. it's a big disaster for us here in the marshes. there is no place for ice to i from. it's because our let me stop there maybe. now there's many many cases out there. for the women it's more morning in my wife's awareness case. it's true that women generally have a higher cancer risk average going to the girl children are a lot more vulnerable than any other part of the population so especially in regard to iraq cancer. if i remember the number right at about one hundred times the risk of adult males from the same relation to. its

fire or remove nine hundred eighty one could not. i remember one time she went to quads for generation one of her breasts. and she was selling need to go to class. and then she came back and i had to shout at her i graduated a man i would see what is going on. he told minute he had a man in one of the best so they had to an operation and get him. in the early and mid ninety's when the us started to declassify a lot of the information about the testing program that had been classified as secret top secret. better understanding of the effects of radiation was developed. secrecy and classified documents belong to the tradition of the world's armies

especially when their actions could prompt lawsuits over millions of dollars in compensation from their governments ok sure. i think. these are on some of that the class advice arguments they were declassified in one thousand nine hundred four if i remember correctly but we just got them. you know ninety eight or ninety nine you know by and like simple boxes at one time there was this project call four point one the united states wanted to learn or make a study on radiation effects on human beings and so that all of these people were chosen. to be used as guinea pigs the rationale in part was that and this is quoting from the brookhaven report of

one nine hundred fifty eight greater knowledge of such effects on human beings is is badly needed such as the habitation of these people on the island will afford most valuable ecological radiation data on human beings. various radio isotopes present can be traced from the soil through the food chain and into the human beings where the tissue an organ distribution biological half lives and excretion rates can be studied they have to bring in some people from an. experiment started to get their picture name with their i.d.'s and use them as an x. that's when we progress and they stood there for one purpose x. . we know that chronic low dose exposure will increase to some extent the incidence of leukemia and cancer of the skin but we are in a region that we really know very little about in regard to human effects one of

things about good health care is the people that are receiving the health care at the first of all trust in what they're trying to do and trust involves historical context of that and so i think there were definite trust the she's. the department of energy stacks more than three million cubic feet of studies on radiation the scientists were so fascinated by this research that from one nine hundred forty seven until the seventies they conducted experiments on the american population itself. people were injected was plutonium though some of the leading health institutions in the united states the stated purpose of many of these experiments were to devise ways to protect people from radiation exposure we haven't seen any as far as i could i could recall any really useful information or they came out of these pregnant women were given radioactive iron to see the

metabolism or really right of our body and though children part of it there was a school for supposedly retarded children and a radioactive cereal was fed to these children the president of the health physics society was asked would you give this radioactive cereal to your children and he said of course not and so this is the problem of of places like we're all alone there's travel of immediate us are feared to be. intimidated a war wiped on tammy's and. so that the castle probable shot menow everyone fires because they get in the end all. slowly in the fall. and. jump the bomb because it is. so easy.

they're always said. everybody makes mistakes you know. every once in this but something new planet for a long long time. that misty it was like. countdown i see. and. it was there mike. maybe and then being that. marshland were most like it or mines. and in that they may have maybe been in bed. by. the people of brown that have been engaged in talks with the united states and they still hope that justice will prevail. but the superpower frightens. i don't believe

in confrontational top policy and being an anti-american. i think that would be counterproductive to our issues than a relationship with him and i'm states i believe that americans should provide all the health care to the marshallese people because they are responsible for the testing they contaminated our islands. so far we have negotiated with them it didn't work out it's not helping much you know as the wrongly piece chase after a health program and the decontamination of their island huge expenditures are made right under their noses yes the islands are still at the heart of american military research with progeny at its epicenter. was an able base and its support of the testing during the eighty's when the star wars program came into effect questions

importance was raised again it became what has been referred to as the catcher's mitt where rockets fired from vandenberg air force base in california would land in the lagoon or near. while hanging on to the dream that building an anti-missile shield the americans bombed progeny for more than twenty years but this sort of nuclear umbrella which cost the american taxpayers about ten billion dollars every year is also very controversial because the united states doesn't hide its intention to install interceptors in space as you know today in government under paul martin was committed secretly silently to becoming part of the american missile defense plans and many of us said hey wait a minute this really isn't about missile defense this is really about. first beginnings of the weaponization of space once we got there from a shared public mr sixty five percent favored it was sixty five percent against we

forced him to the us the americans that we can use no thank you very much we were going to be part of it us as you walk and for the un disarmament commission to expand the outer space treaty to prevent militarization speech the lack of current discussions international about what all the planning in space is very bad you have one army of engineers are improving our cellular phones now communications in the world you have another army of engineers are planning a whole always to destroy what's going on up there. they tell us that it's a big boy it's nothing it's like an empty shell like to believe that is that his army but. how can we trust. that. we have to tell our story because

we are a product of nuclear weapons we want to tell the world that these are the consequences . i said i almost. i said this is my song. it was a mess that i tell the story over and over again to the were. i said to myself. what is my story is it wouldn't while or is there for everybody to listen to what if there is no money for the people are wrong not for program then what i said share my body to the world. little white. goo we experience. but do something big for the people. in that my survival all over them i survive.

and believe they need something in return we don't do business for free i have the kind of family planning went on and. perry my family by the way come. when many of them that seriously want me to go back. in one thousand nine hundred six the testimony of lesion at night before the international court of justice sealed the fate of nuclear weapons on july eighth the panel of judges declared the threat or use of nuclear weapons in general is contrary to the norms of international law included in the law of war. or the judges of the court were unanimous in their opinion that the nuclear weapon

should be exterminated from the centers of the wood and they heard that there were so many principles of international law which the nuclear weapon but it. we're gay men were friendly and i haven't said i don't like the people you met in state because there are more we want to like us in the room and that's. this fame is for everyone only we're not on time and place i guess. it is my friend. who else is going to vote for. we're also each one of five of the survivors on their kids. there was neither anger nor hatred in the survivors voices just pain the nuclear powers are lucky these voices are too weak to prevent these arsenals from re-emerging in

military strategies the international court of justice is a moral authority and its opinion has had no effect on countries that depend on the atom bomb for their power so between the time they did images of the victims and disregard for the future we are counting on the survivors descendants to intervene . but beyond maki or evelyn who can say who is not living with the legacy of hiroshima or wrong clap.

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to peace look at how israel refuses to pull down its west bank separation of oil wells are trying to cash in on terror terrorism. news from russia and around the world this is aussie with me about thanks for joining us a u.s. appeals court has to decide on whether to reimpose the death penalty or order a retrial of a month dubbed by supporters as the america's top political prisoner mamiya abou jamal is appealing his conviction for the murder of a police officer in one thousand nine hundred eighty one and has been on death row for twenty eight he is but there's been international condemnation on his original trial with ana sing to national saying it was politically.