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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on November 11, 2019, 01:39:22 am
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How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster
By Susanne Rust
Five thousand miles west of Los Angeles and 500 miles north of the equator, on a far-flung spit of white coral sand in the central Pacific, a massive, aging and weathered concrete dome bobs up and down with the tide.
Here in the Marshall Islands, Runit Dome holds more than 3.1 million cubic feet — or 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools — of U.S.-produced radioactive soil and debris, including lethal amounts of plutonium. Nowhere else has the United States saddled another country with so much of its nuclear waste, a product of its Cold War atomic testing program.
Between 1946 and 1958, the United States detonated 67 nuclear bombs on, in and above the Marshall Islands — vaporizing whole islands, carving craters into its shallow lagoons and exiling hundreds of people from their homes.
(https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/static/graphics/la-na-marshall-islands-map.jpg)
Read more at: https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/ (https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/)