bojacobs, 10 months ago to sts

To learn more, read Kate Brown's Plutopia

"Mayak: The secret nuclear power plant that poisoned Russians for decades"

#Mayak #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #Russia #ColdWarHist @histodons @sts

https://bigthink.com/the-past/mayak-secret-nuclear-plant-poisoned-russians-decades/

bojacobs, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to sts

Selecting the irradiated (one of the chapter titles of my book):

The US conducted 1,054 nuclear weapon tests.

88% were conducted inside the US at the Nevada Test Site.

8% were conducted in the Marshall Islands.

This chart shows that the US concentrated the much larger hydrogen bomb tests in the Marshall Islands, and that the 8% of tests there released far more blast, heat and radiation than the domestic tests.

This is a form of nuclear colonialism.

#RMI #nuclear #NuclearWeapons #ColdWarHist #colonialism @histodons @sts