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James McCarty Yeager<p>Trinity Bomb: 11:29:21 GMT on 16.Jul.1945 was the moment when the first atomic bomb flashed above the Jornada del Muerto desert basin in New Mexico, creating radiation diseases in the downwind plume that spread across the Native American and Spanish-speaking peoples (and a few whites) from Alamgordo to Santa Fe. Tested on people of color in order to be dropped on people of color. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UShistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UShistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/worldhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>worldhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atomic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bomb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/americana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>americana</span></a></p>
Nando161<p><a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/Oceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oceans</span></a> have absorbed <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/heat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heat</span></a> of 1.7 billion <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/atomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atomic</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/bombs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bombs</span></a>, <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientists</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/warn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>warn</span></a> as <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UN</span></a> summit opens in Nice<br><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/un-ocean-summit-france-macron-atomic-bombs-b2767914.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/climate-chan</span><span class="invisible">ge/news/un-ocean-summit-france-macron-atomic-bombs-b2767914.html</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History June 30, 1960: Congo won independence from Belgium after years of brutal colonial rule which slaughtered up to 10 million people, or half its entire population. However, imperial powers continued to exploit the people of Congo, even after independence. In 1961, the CIA orchestrated a coup that tortured, murdered, and overthrew its first democratically elected president, Patrice Lumumba, after a failed coup against him by Mobutu Sese Seku, who would later become dictator from 1971 until 1997. </p><p>President Eisenhower authorized the assassination because of Lumumba’s ties with the Soviet Union. The U.S., and its European allies, wanted control over Congo’s resources, particularly its rich uranium deposits, both to fuel their civilian and military nuclear programs, and, in particular, to keep them out of the hands of the Soviet Union, which was allied with Lumumba. The wonderful 2024 documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” does a really great job of uncovering the concealed history of the 1961 assassination of Lumumba and the coup d’etat in Congo. But it’s really about so much more: Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte. There’s even a “slumber party” with Fidel Castro at Malcolm X’s home, in New York, after the U.S. authorities convince all the hotels in New York to refuse Castro a place to sleep during a UN conference, and he attempts to camp out on the sidewalk with his contingent.</p><p>One of the people the CIA used in its early attempts to assassinate Lumumba was chemist Sidney Gottlieb, who ran the agencies secret MKULTRA mind control program. Gottlieb tried, but failed, to kill Lumumba with poisoned toothpaste. He also tried, and failed, to assassinate Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar and with radioactively poisoned shoes. MKULTRA was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The program gave hallucinogenic drugs, like LSD and Mescaline, to 7,000 unwitting U.S. war veterans, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>congo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/belgium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>belgium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lumumba</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/malcomx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>malcomx</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fidelcastro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fidelcastro</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>soviet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ussr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ussr</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/atomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atomic</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coldwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coldwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jazz</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mkultra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mkultra</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hallucinogens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hallucinogens</span></a></p>
FreddyB Aviation Photography<p>Project Adiago Nuclear weapon test site. This 3000 foot shaft was completed as a follow on to the Project Faultless detonation in 1968. it was abandoned and no test occurred, Nye County, Nevada August 2024 <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/adiago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adiago</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/fautless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fautless</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/nucler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nucler</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/atomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atomic</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/nye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nye</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/nucleartesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nucleartesting</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/bomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bomb</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/abandoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abandoned</span></a></p>
joe•iuculano :mastodon:<p>Hey, Donald! <br>If Iran is, as you say, the Bully of the Middle East,<br>the United States is the Bully of the West.</p><p>Period.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/atomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atomic</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpoli</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USForeignPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USForeignPolicy</span></a></p>
Jeremy Buffer Jones :tinoflag:<p>For those who don't know about Richard Medhurst, he is an independent journalist, and was recently arrested at London's Heathrow Airport on August 15 2024 under Britain's Terrorism Act and arrested again on 3 February 2025, this time by Austrian authorities who raided his home and accused him of having affiliations with Hamas. </p><p>Medhurst had restraints placed on him preventing him from practicing journalism with threats of imprisonment etc. </p><p>Well, guess who's back? </p><p>This factual breakdown of the history of the <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nuclear</span></a> deal signed by <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> torn up by <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> and the lawless actions of <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netanyahu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/EUPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EUPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> and the <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UN</span></a> International <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Atomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atomic</span></a> Energy Agency <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/IAEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IAEA</span></a> failure to uphold international law. </p><p>So pleased to have you back <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/RichardMedhurst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RichardMedhurst</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/5dO4LWQVmeE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/5dO4LWQVmeE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>'s attacks on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a> hint at a bigger ambition: regime change</p><p>Israel's surprise attack on Iran had an obvious goal of sharply disrupting Tehran's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> programme &amp; lengthening the time it would need to develop an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/atomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atomic</span></a> weapon.</p><p>But the scale of the attacks, Israel's choice of targets, and its politicians' own words suggest another, longer-term ambition: toppling the regime itself.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-attacks-iran-hint-bigger-goal-regime-change-2025-06-14/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/middle-east/</span><span class="invisible">israels-attacks-iran-hint-bigger-goal-regime-change-2025-06-14/</span></a></p>
GenXMusicLover<p>Blondie - Atomic (1980)</p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/45vinyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>45vinyl</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/blondie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blondie</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/atomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atomic</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/debbieharry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debbieharry</span></a> #1980 <a href="https://toot.community/tags/1980s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1980s</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/80smusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>80smusic</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/newwave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newwave</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/dancerock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dancerock</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/disco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disco</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/pop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pop</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/synthpop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>synthpop</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/7inch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>7inch</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/gxml" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gxml</span></a></p><p>Wordpress - <a href="https://genxmusiclover.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/blondie-atomic/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">genxmusiclover.wordpress.com/2</span><span class="invisible">025/06/09/blondie-atomic/</span></a><br>Blogspot - <a href="https://genxmusiclover.blogspot.com/2025/06/blondie-atomic.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">genxmusiclover.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">25/06/blondie-atomic.html</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Disarming a Nuke… Twice - Since the tail end of World War II, humanity has struggled to deal with its newfou... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/disarming-a-nuke-twice/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/05/31/disarm</span><span class="invisible">ing-a-nuke-twice/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/explosion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>explosion</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/misfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>misfire</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/atomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atomic</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/bomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bomb</span></a></p>

Today in Labor History May 20, 1956: In Operation Redwing, the U.S. dropped the first airborne hydrogen bomb over the Bikini Atoll. From May to July, the U.S. detonated 17 nuclear devices in the Bikini and Enewetak atolls. They tested both thermonuclear and fission weapons. They cynically named each of the tests after a different Native American tribe, and then, in the following years, went on to devastate indigenous lands within the U.S. mainland through nuclear mining, testing and waste storage.

Between 1946 and 1958, the U.S. detonated 67 nuclear devices in the Marshall Islands. According to anthropologist Holly Barker, it was the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima-sized bombs dropped on the islands every day for 12 years. As a result of these tests, the U.S. completely vaporized three of the Bikini Islands and polluted huge swaths of water and land, poisoning countless indigenous people there. Many starved to death because they were relocated to places that couldn’t produce enough food. Each resident now receives a paltry $550 annually from the U.S. government to cover medical treatment related to radiation poisoning.

Today in Labor History May 18, 1979: An Oklahoma jury ruled in favor of the estate of atomic worker Karen Silkwood. Kerr-McGee Nuclear Company was ordered to pay $505,000 in actual damages and $10 million in punitive damages for negligence leading to Silkwood’s plutonium contamination. On appeal, the court reduced the settlement to a pitiful $5,000, the estimated value of her property losses. In 1984, the Supreme Court restored the original verdict, but Kerr-McGee again threatened to appeal. Ultimately, Silkwood’s family settled out of court for $1.38 million and the company never had to admit any wrongdoing.

Silkwood first started working at Kerr-McGee in 1972. She joined the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers union and participated in a strike. After the strike, her comrades elected her to the union’s bargaining committee. She was the first woman to attain that status at Kerr-McGee. In this role, one of her duties was to investigate health and safety issues. Not surprisingly, she discovered numerous violations, including exposure of workers to contamination. The union accused Kerr-McGee of falsifying inspection records, manufacturing faulty fuel rods and other safety violations. After testifying to the Atomic Energy Commission, Silkwood discovered that her own body and home were contaminated with radiation. Her body contained 400 times the legal limit for plutonium contamination and she was expelling contaminated air from her lungs. Her house was so contaminated they had to destroy much of her personal property.

Later, she decided to go public with documentation proving the company’s negligence. She left a meeting with union officials in order to meet a New York Times journalist. She brought a binder and packet of documents supporting her allegations with her. However, she never made it, dying in a suspicious car crash. The documents were never found. Some journalists believe she was rammed from behind by another vehicle. Investigators noted damage to the read of her car that would be consistent with this hypothesis. She had also received death threats shortly before her death. However, no one has yet substantiated the claims of foul play.

Arguably the most famous war planes of all time, B-29-45 44-86292 'Enola Gay" on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia This is one of the few angles to get the whole plane in

Note the only example of the Horten Ho 229 V3 jet powered flying wing tucked alongside. The wings are on a stand next to it #B29 #Enolagay #Smithsonian #Hiroshima #atomic #nuclear #aviationphotography #AvGeek #photography #Nikon #aircraft #nikonphotography