Nuclear testing on the Atolls
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 3:39 pm
news.msn.com/world/islanders-afraid-to-go-home-60-years-after-bikini-atoll-h-bomb
The US displaced an entire culture and population and broke a trust with those same peoples. That is a trust that can never be rebuilt. Its an interesting article. For me its especially interesting because my father was there. I remember him telling me that when they set off the largest bomb, they had all been put in bunkers with goggles that were so dark that you couldn't see almost anything through them even in daylight. When that bomb went off, he said, the light was so intense that when he held his arm up into the light, you could see your bones through your arm/hand in an almost mimicry of an X-ray.
The US displaced an entire culture and population and broke a trust with those same peoples. That is a trust that can never be rebuilt. Its an interesting article. For me its especially interesting because my father was there. I remember him telling me that when they set off the largest bomb, they had all been put in bunkers with goggles that were so dark that you couldn't see almost anything through them even in daylight. When that bomb went off, he said, the light was so intense that when he held his arm up into the light, you could see your bones through your arm/hand in an almost mimicry of an X-ray.