american military base he by the slum bikini in 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 clay field but a paradise if one intends to test atomic bombs. all right. at the united states but now almost a journalist's right it's a force and there's something good for man. one if you don't know what it is you know the united. 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. including the bravo test in one nine hundred fifty four fifteen megaton test thousand times more powerful and explosive yield than the hiroshima bomb. or she won but there are no one of them. in makes me angry that nobody knows what is your own life low level it is a little. bit too. much first thousand nine hundred fifty four the islanders are amazed to see the sun rising in the west but this star is.

thermonuclear bombs bravo irradiates the sky by the wind blows towards the atoll of wrong laughed. the m.m.r. . yes i think so we don't know. whether it hurt they only hurting us sleeping. the right night completely who in my. when the lights go in thousand we've seen that thing goes down from. around the ground. like the sand like sand. and then the next there is strong and true eyes everywhere and the ground was moving say and we were so scared.

we would be back there. i had to elope id so we hide for several hours and when we have game back we see our white things covered before and while we get the powder. because nobody to me. turned out to be a lot more powerful than they expected. they didn't bother to move the wrong people because. it was basically too complicated logistics they had to take by this time permission from the department of interior and frankly it was expensive. it was just by accident that we even found out that that's wrong to let people who had been. the reason they found out was it was a 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. rushed. there and. well it's six months the operator had died but the people and. they had a slow motion kind of effect they also had a lot of. you know loss. and burn yes my mom. here with. her infant. you couldn't be unaware. but to. report in a way which. other cool were doing this until. it was to reach. the summit of prickly.

to treat the natives and it is so normal western history didn't hardly. reason as. 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 they did this continuously and are still doing that because they are such a living example of what it was 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 bomb me in her and nagasaki. obviously the dimension of what happened in her she meant 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 host 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 fetuses and. my mom she has seven miscarriage and one time she had a baby that looked like craig and that makes me sad that i have a baby sitter or alien 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 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 could be part of an 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 wrong the lab and you do it if you have one quick test these. but i mean yes birth defects. is a doctor get it right and it is a last minute plan and i think you have heard of other people like that even by that i'm not sure if you're familiar with the bare seven report in this report it did see very clearly that there's genetic mutations that are changed biologically by relation 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 that there are seventy four and i don't know. it's never been showed to see yes but it's also been never shown to see not. mainly by saying of the woman who has ms adds many a woman to leave her the silly face the little girl for any guy you know why is nine points and why is that why i never i never even. close to you know that just because of the radiation readings when the survivors are told that their children. have no genetical effects and radiation has no genetic backs on the second and third and fourth and so on generations. in the plane war itself are some high risk we don't trust we know.

that they are in that moment. i don't have any children of my own. the only difference. the boys. to me she's my mother and me she might have me in my blood on them but 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 majority she has given up hope of ever living on the wrong map the atmospheric testing spread radioactivity throughout the world mainly in the northern hemisphere not only near the test sites but all over the world and we are still living with a 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 dawud 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 lebanese stop there being. now there's many many. cases out there. for the women it's more morning in the wise awareness. 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 quiet for jews or for one of her breasts. but she was selling need she was going to class. and then she came back and i had a shot at her i graduated a man of which you already went on. tell minute he had a man in one of the best of the end to. an operation and in getting. 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.

ok these are are some call that they classify starting men's they were declassified in one thousand and four if i remember correctly but we just got them. you know ninety eight or ninety nine they don't buy and like simple foxes 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 ideas and use them as an ox that's when we first understood. for one prize x. . we know that conduct 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 a people that are receiving their health care at the first of all trust in what

they're trying to do and trust involves historical context of it and so i think there were definite trust issues. 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 who 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 appeared to be intimidated a war what. so that the castle probable shot menow everyone fires because they get in the abdomen and islands of warm up. slowly in the fall. and. jump the bomb because is. there always save the earth everybody makes me you know. every once in this

but something new planet. called that misty it was like. countdown i. and. it was. maybe then being that. marshland were mostly my. mind. and in that they may have maybe been in there. 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 a confrontational policy and being an anti america. i think that would

be counterproductive to our issues than our relationship with united states i believe that americans should provide all the health care to the marshallese people because they are responsible for the testing they contaminate in our islands. so far we have negotiated with them it didn't work out it's not helping much. 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 the 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 of building an anti-missile shield the americans bombed praja name 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 the government under paul martin was committed secretly silently to becoming part of the american missile defense plans and many of us said he waited this really isn't about missile defense this is really about. the first beginnings of the weaponization of space once we got the information of the sort of sixty five percent favored it was sixty five percent again 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 the u.s. has unilaterally block efforts the u.n.

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 i only have one army of engineers are improving our cellular phones and our communications with the world have another arm 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 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 in this that i tell the story over and over again to there were i said to myself. what is my story is it wouldn't while or is there for everybody the relation to what if there is no money for the people up for program then what i said share my body to the world. we are white people who we experience. but do something for the people. in the marshes. all over them i survive. and believe they need something and.

we don't do business for free i have the kind of family planning planned on. perry my family by the way. you would imagine that 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 there is that there are so

many principles of international law which the nuclear weapon but it. we're gay male or rarely and i haven't said i don't like you a lot you're not the state it goes there are more like us in the room and this. is famous for everyone only when on time and that place i guess. it is my friend. who else is gone and former. were also each one of five. 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 faded images of the victims and disregard for the future we are counting on the survivors descendants to intervene . but beyond mucky or evelyn who can say who is not living with the legacy of hiroshima or wrong clap. for your coming are comfortable shuttle bus he can display. just

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us president barack obama you should russian president dmitri medvedev that be a start treaty ratification is a top priority this came on the sidelines of the apec summit as the two leaders met in a bilateral meeting. after much angry rhetoric between china and the u.s. the summit of the world's richest nations and ends with an agreement to stand back

from. a suspected organ trafficking network under course of concern it is becoming a major problem in tonight's crime. a russian newspaper uncovers details of this summer's moscow washington spy scandal saying it was a tension who blew his cover. it's a place where no one cares about the speed limit as we discover which russian join the formula one part. twelve noon here in the russian capital and this is our team's weekly news review first it was the only country ever to be hit by an atomic attack japan.