that's. material a capital project in the american military base the 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 point of view but a paradise if one intends to test atomic bombs. all right. at the united states but now almost a journalist right is it orders and good for man. why they want to

you don't want it if you don't be 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 explosive yield than the hiroshima bomb. or shimon but then i know what happened. in makes me angry that nobody knows but if you're on my own it is. good to. march

first one nine hundred fifty four the islanders are amazed to see the sun rising in the west but this star is a thermonuclear bomb bravo irradiates the sky while the wind blows towards the atoll of around that. the m.m.r. . yes i think so we don't. was a birthday and leaving us sleeping. right nights. completely in my. when the lights go in thousand we've seen the thing goes down from. around the ground. lead us and our like sand.

and then the next there is strong and blue eyes everywhere and the ground was moving say and we were so scared. we'd be back there. i had the body so we hide for several hours and when we in fact we still don't know why things were before well we knew the power as know what it has meant to the. turned out to be a lot more powerful than they expected. they didn't bother to move the wrong collapsed people because they said oh well it was basically too complicated logistics they had to take by this time permission from the department of interior and frankly it was the spellcheck. it was just by accident that we even found out

that that the drug let people had been powdered. the reason they found out was that with a little japanese fishing trawler. that was also out there and they got dusted with radioactivity that drew the most headlines i never heard of it was called the lucky trick i. 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. them burned yes my mom sisters. are in from here. you couldn't be unaware. but to. report in a way which are

a. rather cool we're doing this until. it was through radiation but some of it prickly. to the natives and it is so normal western history that it hardly. raises an eyebrow. 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. 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 mega tonnage was thousands of times what happened 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 know. 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. reply fetuses and. my mom she has seven miscarriage and one time she had a baby that looked like great and that make me sound that i have a babysitter is an alien. 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 wrong the lab and you do it if you have one quick test these. but i mean yes birth defects. is a doctor in that age and it is a classic line of plan and i think you have heard about the baby giving birth that i'm not sure if you're familiar with the bear seven report in this report it did say 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 instead of 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 port i don't know. it's never been showed to see yes but it's also been never shown to see not. mainly by same of the woman who has these ads many a woman the leader of the silly face believe me 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 are far survivors we don't trust we know. that they are genetic. i don't have any children of my own. the only difference. the boys. to me she's my mother i mean she might have me in my life one of which she says a reason i turn out to be like this. want to be something i want to do something for my people because i know she is and our 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 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 the long lived radioactive legacy of that fallout we still have strength from 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 reste 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 as to why from the way it's because our let me stop there me. now there's many many. cases out there. for the women it's more more i'm in no wise awareness plays. it's true that women generally have a higher cancer risk averaged two of 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 clip. i remember one time she went quiet for jews or one of her breasts. but she was selling need she was going to clash. and then she came back and i had to shout at her i graduated a man i would see what is going on. tell minute he had a man in one of a bestial 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 share. i thought. ok these are are some of that the class of life that humans they were declassified in one thousand and four if i remember correctly but we just got them. you know ninety eight or ninety nine you know by until like several passes 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 a to experiment started to get their picture name with their i.d.'s and use them as a key in a big city that's when we first understood. for one prize that's all. 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 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 with 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 veyron 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 tight and eventually did a war what. so that the castle probable shot the now everyone fires because they get in the abdomen. slowly in the fog. and. jump the wound because it is.

there are always said. everybody makes mistakes you know. every once in this but something new planet for a long long time. you don't recall that mistake it was like. countdown i. and. it was. maybe then being there. for most of my. mind. and in the. maybe even. by. the people of iran 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-american. i think that would be counterproductive to our issues than our relationship within our 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 project that 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 of 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 he waited this really isn't about missile defense this is really about. 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 against we forced it to those the americans that are weakening is no thank you very much we were going to be part of it the u.s. has unilaterally 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 i only have one army of engineers are improving our cellular phones now communications in the world 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 no clear 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 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 people who experience. but do something for the people. in the

marshes back i'm all over them i survive. and believe they need some dignity time we don't do business for free i have the kind of heavenly light but i don't know. perry my family by the way can. you get 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 were so many principles of international law which the nuclear weapon but it. we're gay male or grammy no i haven't said i don't like the football you're mad instate it goes there are more like cuts in the room and it's. those famous for everyone or lieberman and i made that place i guess. it is my phone. is gone and former. were also each one of five for 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 mucky or evelyn who can say who is not living with the legacy of hiroshima or wrong clap. was.

president obama assured russian leader dimitri medvedev the ratifying the nuclear cuts treaty remains a top american priority as they meet on the sidelines of the asia pacific summit. in other stories that shape this week the leaders of the world's richest economies agreed to have a good current conflict but failed to adopt real measures to tackle deep trade

trouble. an investigation into the costs of all organ trafficking network brings the spotlight on the claims that hundreds of other body parts removed and sold during the yugoslav war. and the traitor at the top russian newspaper claims a senior intelligence officer is to blame for the exposure of ten russian agents in the us we report. this is r.t. welcome it's eight pm sunday night here in moscow i'm kevin zero in with the top stories from the week and russia and the u.s. have reaffirmed their commitment to slashing their country's nuclear arsenals president obama says ratifying the start treaty will be a top senate priority it came on french talks with dmitri medvedev of the asia pacific summit which is now wrapped up in japan are these tests are a serious.