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Wen<p>Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose</p><p>Governments love to cover up their errors - unforced or otherwise, especially when admissions might mean compensation. See similar for British testing in Australia, the US on its own soil and no doubt others.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/france-spent-90000-countering-research-into-impact-of-pacific-nuclear-tests" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/may</span><span class="invisible">/27/france-spent-90000-countering-research-into-impact-of-pacific-nuclear-tests</span></a></p><p>In one 1974 test alone, 110,000 people could have received a radiation dose high enough to qualify them for compensation if they later developed one of 23 different cancers.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NuclearTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTests</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/denial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>denial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/coverup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coverup</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2069073/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2069073/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Date, History, Significance And All You Need To Know <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/america" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>america</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/APJAbdulKalam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>APJAbdulKalam</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DefenceTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefenceTechnology</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Hansa3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hansa3</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HistoryOf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOf</span></a>&amp;nbsp;NationalTechnologyDay <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NationalTechnologyDay2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalTechnologyDay2025</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NuclearClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearClub</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NuclearTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTests</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Pokhran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pokhran</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PokhranII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PokhranII</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PokhranIINuclearTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PokhranIINuclearTests</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SignificanceOf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SignificanceOf</span></a>&amp;nbsp;NationalTechnologyDay <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesOfAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
bsmall2<p>&gt; The people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only people to have been directly attacked by nuclear weapons. However, since then there have been more than 2,000 nuclear weapons detonated in tests. The communities downwind from those test sites did not suffer direct attack, but rather, were exposed to radioactive fallout from the mushroom clouds as they drifted.<br> <a href="https://apjjf.org/2021/17/Jacobs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">apjjf.org/2021/17/Jacobs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>/HT <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hcommons.social/@bojacobs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bojacobs</span></a></span> <br> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/NuclearTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTests</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/NuclearAttacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearAttacks</span></a> <br> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/HiroshimaAndNagasaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HiroshimaAndNagasaki</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>The Silent Killers in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndianCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndianCountry</span></a>: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Copper</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lithium</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uranium</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Plutonium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutonium</span></a></p><p>Judge finds plutonium plants in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthCarolina</span></a> violated environmental laws</p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, Oct. 10, 2024</p><p>"The U.S. government's plan for increased plutonium production at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAlamos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LosAlamos</span></a> National Laboratory, in the heart of Pueblo lands in northern New Mexico, has been delayed by a federal judge. </p><p>"Continuing the U.S. legacy of poisoning Indian country with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radiation</span></a>, this comes as the U.S. government is granting leases to foreign <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> companies targeting Native <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sacred</span></a> lands and communities. </p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> is targeting San CarlosApache's sacred <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a>; <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hualapai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hualapai</span></a> are suing the US Department of Interior to halt lithium mining at their sacred spring Ha'Kamwe'; and the U.S. government is promoting the ongoing digging into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a> Massacre Site in northern Nevada for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lithium</span></a>, in violation of all federal laws that protect Native religious and historic sites, the environment and endangered species.</p><p>"Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon threatens <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Havasupai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Havasupai</span></a>'s aquifer, the haul route endangers everyone in the Four Corners region, and the uranium mill at White Mesa Ute in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a> is poisoning <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Utes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Utes</span></a>. </p><p>"Interior Sec. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DebHaaland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DebHaaland</span></a> said in Farmington, N.M., that Los Alamos Labs would be the leader in the so-called '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenEnergy</span></a> transition' in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FourCorners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FourCorners</span></a> region.</p><p>"More than 500 radioactive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMill</span></a> sites remain on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNation</span></a> that have not been cleaned up by the U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a>, which deceives the public by announcing plans and promises to clean up the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> sites. </p><p>"In the current federal lawsuit, a federal judge in South Carolina ruled that U.S. energy officials illegally neglected to study impacts to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> in efforts to increase plutonium production for nuclear weapons in New Mexico and South Carolina.</p><p>"'South Carolina District Court Judge Mary Geiger Lewis sided with environmental, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiNuclear</span></a> proliferation and community groups last week who sued the National Nuclear Security Administration (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NNSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NNSA</span></a>), which oversees the nuclear weapons stockpile as part of the U.S. Department of Energy [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOE</span></a>],' reports Source New Mexico. </p><p>"The U.S. is investing billions into restarting the manufacture of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlutoniumPits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlutoniumPits</span></a>, the grapefruit-sized spheres developed for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> weapons. The plutonium is produced from uranium. </p><p>"'The federal government halted its manufacturing program at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RockyFlatsPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RockyFlatsPlant</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colorado</span></a> in 1989 after an FBI raid due to safety concerns and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalCrimes</span></a>,' Source New Mexico reports. </p><p>"The U.S. government's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtomicBombTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicBombTesting</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a> left a trail of cancer and death for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WesternShoshone</span></a>. The documentary 'Downwind' reveals the truth.</p><p>"'This is a very serious issue and that's why I can't let it go. I can't move on. People say, 'oh, why don't you just let it go?' Because it's killing my family. It's killing my land. It's killing my people. And that will not stand. It's being done in secret. And killing Indians in secret will not stand,' said Ian Zabarte, Principal Man of the Western Bands of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShoshoneNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShoshoneNation</span></a> of Indians. Zabarte is featured in '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Downwind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Downwind</span></a>' about radiation poisoning from U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTests</span></a>. </p><p>"Currently, foreign companies -- which receive the profits and find it easy to avoid clean up and responsibility for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> crimes and deaths from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> -- are receiving the mining leases from the U.S. government. The leases are granted by the U.S. Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and in the case of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrandCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrandCanyon</span></a>, it is the USDA's Forestry Service. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a>'s attorneys have joined the lawsuit with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> to devastate <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a>. </p><p>"Australian and Canadian mining corporations are devastating Native lands and communities, poisoning the water and causing widespread cancer.<br>Rio Tinto, targeting Apaches <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a>, is an Australian company which destroyed 46,000 years of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Aboriginal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aboriginal</span></a> sacred history in caves in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a>. </p><p>"Another Australian mining company is targeting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hualapai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hualapai</span></a>'s sacred site. It is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hawstone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hawstone</span></a> / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArizonaLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArizonaLithium</span></a>, in Perth, Australia.<br> <br>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyFuels</span></a>, now uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and operating the uranium mill at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaUte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaUte</span></a>, is a Canadian company. Another Canadian company is digging into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a> Massacre Site. It is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumAmericas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumAmericas</span></a>.<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hopi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hopi</span></a> judge <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DianeHumetewa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DianeHumetewa</span></a> granted a temporary restraining order to halt the lithium mining at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hualapai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hualapai</span></a>'s sacred spring."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-silent-killers-in-indian-country.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10</span><span class="invisible">/the-silent-killers-in-indian-country.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleLithium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaMill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ute</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtomicBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicBomb</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SuperfundSites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SuperfundSites</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OpenPitMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenPitMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a></p>
Steven J Gibbons<p>Today (August 29) is the International Day against <a href="https://oslo.town/tags/NuclearTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTests</span></a>. I spent over half my career so far advancing methods for the detection, location, and discrimination of nuclear explosions. It is a cause I am still passionately dedicated to and I still follow very closely research, technological, and political developments related to non-proliferation and test-ban verification. I will still contribute in any way within my capacity and expertise towards this aim. </p><p><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/end-nuclear-tests-day" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">un.org/en/observances/end-nucl</span><span class="invisible">ear-tests-day</span></a></p>
Wokebloke for Democracy<p>The first nuclear weapon was detonated in New Mexico.<br><a href="https://www.sfreporter.com/news/morningword/2024/06/07/nuclear-compensation-bill-expires-today-without-vote-by-us-house/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sfreporter.com/news/morningwor</span><span class="invisible">d/2024/06/07/nuclear-compensation-bill-expires-today-without-vote-by-us-house/</span></a><br><a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Downwinders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Downwinders</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/RadiationPoisoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadiationPoisoning</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/NuclearTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTests</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cancer</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/BirthDefects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BirthDefects</span></a></p>
Miro Collas<p>The other Oppenheimer story that won't win Oscars <br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68515779" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-6</span><span class="invisible">8515779</span></a></p><p>"The success of the film Oppenheimer has shone a spotlight on the work done by scientists in New Mexico as they developed the first nuclear bomb. But 80 years later, some local people say their story remains untold."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NuclearTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTests</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Radiation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Fallout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fallout</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Contamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Contamination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Oppenheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oppenheimer</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LosAlamos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LosAlamos</span></a></p>
Matt Willemsen<p><a href="https://theconversation.com/underground-nuclear-tests-are-hard-to-detect-a-new-method-can-spot-them-99-of-the-time-222500" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/undergroun</span><span class="invisible">d-nuclear-tests-are-hard-to-detect-a-new-method-can-spot-them-99-of-the-time-222500</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Underground" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Underground</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nucleartests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nucleartests</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/detection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>detection</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/classification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classification</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>"'Let us be a lesson', say Kazakhs wary of return to nuclear testing"</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Kazakhstan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kazakhstan</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Semey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semey</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTests</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/let-us-be-lesson-say-kazakhs-wary-return-nuclear-testing-2023-11-30/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/asia-pacific</span><span class="invisible">/let-us-be-lesson-say-kazakhs-wary-return-nuclear-testing-2023-11-30/</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>1/2</p><p>The power of art to communicate complex information easily. </p><p>You can see charts of the total number of nuclear weapon tests (2,000+), or of the locations of those tests, or the years. However, this video communicates that history in a visceral, embodied way.</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTests</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sts</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/nuclearhumanities" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nuclearhumanities</span></a></span> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/cjAqR1zICA0?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/cjAqR1zICA0?feature=s</span><span class="invisible">hared</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>"Pacific Islands Forum chair says region must revisit its anti-nuclear treaty"</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/RMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RMI</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTests</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Aukus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aukus</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/07/pacific-islands-forum-chair-says-region-must-revisit-its-anti-nuclear-treaty?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2023/nov</span><span class="invisible">/07/pacific-islands-forum-chair-says-region-must-revisit-its-anti-nuclear-treaty?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-3</span></a></p>
Al Jazeera (unofficial)For 30 years, France undertook nuclear testing in its Pacific territory, French Polynesia.In recent years, investigations have revealed the effects of the te...<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UFe4tRMZ0Y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The human cost of France’s nuclear tests in the Pacific | 101 East</a>