This Concrete Dome Holds A Leaking Toxic Timebomb | Foreign Correspondent
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- Thousands of cubic metres of radioactive waste lies buried under a concrete dome on the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the legacy of over a decade of US nuclear tests in the Pacific.
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the worst part is that these islands are beautiful and they never asked for this
I dont care if its a bog of voldamor.when was making and testing nuclear bombs EVER a good idea. Just goes to show Hine sight is 20 20
@@jhonfamo8412 yeah, 2020 sucks..
@@jhonfamo8412 Actually the creation of nuclear bombs is ironically the best peace keeper we've ever had because mankind has grown so destructive that we fear if we push it any further wed kill ourselves off so many countries fear the aftermath of a nuclear war
Enewetak is still beautiful: lush coral, giant tridachna clams and three foot groupers in five feet of water. The fish contain dangerous levels of radiation, so no one spears on the reef. At noon, the water coming across the reef is as warm as a bath. Ideal for free diving and photography. .
Destruction
I was there in 1971 before they started the clean up. We delivered supplies to guys that were stationed there for a loran station. They only lasted about six months before becoming deathly sick and taken to Hawaii medical hospital to die. We spent three days on the island and was never told it was hot. Only the brass knew and they never came out of their quarters. At night time there wasn't any stars visible because of the green glow of the ocean. At night time you could feel like you were getting a sun burn. I have aged 30 years from that experience above my age at 68. Bone pain is nothing to laugh about. All of your nerves are effected by arthritis. After that I was sent up the quangtri river were agent orange settled into the river. It floats on top of the water. Now I have hischemic heart disease to boot. Join the military and become a patriot. Right.
God bless you. I'm so sorry for the deception that has caused you your health.
😢
My heart feel so heavy after seeing this and then reading this post, I’m so sorry that u also are going through this may God bless you and all affect by the horrible actions of the us government.. please stay strong ❤️
How did they supply all the sand and cement and ballast for the concrete as well as the trucks to mix it?
@@ctmarie7172 Does it never cross your minds, that God never protected this man?
I'm nearly 29 and just knoe finding this out. I never knew the marshall islands existed, along with this dome. As an American, I'm disgusted at the blatant negligence. my heart goes out to the people affected.
We take what we want in the name of “God “
What negligence are you referring to? Presently, the radiation levels, on the Island of Runit, not further away on the occupied Islands, is lower than that of Central Park in NYC. It is possible that some time in the future that the Dame could leak enough to make the area dangerous but, so far, that has not been the case.
My father was stationed there in the 1950's during his time in the navy and had to bear witness to the atomic bomb testing. GI Guinea pigs. For that, he was immediately sickened and died young, as did my oldest brother. The U.S. government lied to him too. He always felt bad about what the government did to the Marshallese.
My sympathy for your father, your brother, and you. My grandpa was in the Navy, and stationed at Enewetak from 54’ to 58’. He’s 86 now, and luckily remained healthy up until the last few years, despite watching dozens of atomic and hydrogen bombs detonate. Now he has Alzheimer’s pretty bad. But he still vividly remembers almost everything having to do with watching those bombs go off.
@@matthewszabo1155 Thank you. Interesting story about your father's memory. My father would have been 91. Mother is 91 with dementia related to old age, but my sister at 61 has been struggling with early Alzheimers for a few years now. Hard to say if her's is related to my father's exposure.
My late father in law in NZ was at the UK Grapple THermo Nuclear Test... He told me a group of sailors were "volunteered", dressed in white anti-flash overalls and hoods and had dark glassses on. They were made to stand at the stern of the HMNZS Pukaki, with their crossed hands over theier dark glass wth their eyes closed, and after the bloast, when ordered they were to turn around and face the cloud. They did the countdown and the bomb was dropped from the RAF Valiant. After it exploded, and just before they were ordered to turn around, he said he felt this huge wall of heat pass through his body, and through his closed eyes and dark glasses could see the bones in his crossed hands... In the time I knew him he had four operations to remove melanomas. My wife has so far had three. Of our two daughters, one has flawless skin - the other has a back that looks like a Damlation Dog, it is so spotty.
And even recently, our Government under Ardern told us to consider them to be the one source of the truth. Yeah Right.
just amazes me how millions of dollars from anywhere can be spent on destruction of the world. but no one wants to spend the money on creating a better place.
I know, we need to build that wall!
There's no money for the elite in creating a better place , that's why no one is helping Japan clean up Fukushima ,the country's of this planet are just interested in their own little bubble and economy, and the world is slowly dieing and MSM is so controlled that it won't speak out . Everyone will one day be affected by this and no one will escape not even the elite and the MSM !!!!!!!
That’s what trumps for all theses new highways and buildings.
Millions of dollars won't do shit in helping the world. You need hundreds of billions to trillions.
The US spent *49 billion* on foreign aid... _in 2015 alone._* Not to say that there isn't always more to be done, but merely brushing off the efforts from the millions of volunteers and hundreds of billions spent worldwide isn't exactly fair.
*Council on Foreign Relations (2017, April 11). How Does the U.S. Spend Its Foreign Aid?. Retrieved from www.cfr.org/backgrounder/how-does-us-spend-its-foreign-aid
“The wind failed to follow the prediction.” Those words anger me.
Americans have been ignorant for decades.
@@jamieohjamie There's a lot of ignorant people, generally speaking, regardless their nationality.
Praz P this isn’t a situation to make a meme from
@@bobduncan6519 Who knows, maybe a meme can be used to penetrate younger social circles and actually disseminate the news in a way.
matthewboylez34 but The Americans are clueless
I was moved to tears twice during this documentary, both times listening to Kathy talk so bravely and eloquently about her battle to save her home for her children. The effects of climate change on these peoples home is a crime against humanity, an absolute tragedy. Sadly, those responsible will never know nor care about these people.
My dad was stationed at Enewetak for operation teapot back then. As of 2022, he is 97 years old and still kicking.
90% deaf from ordinance explosions & being around jets for 28 years; 75% blind from glaucoma but still here nonetheless.
I guess he is one of the lucky ones.
Exactly, like everywhere else. At least they got their independence, they should be happy now. 😊
Th@tadeuszmazan4661 they are not happy
'the wind failed to follow their predictions'.
Arrogance level: 1,000,000
They were probably manipulating the weather with HARP and blew it right into their faces instead!!
Alex Gibson Japan *laughs silently*
Scientist aren't always right. The trade winds shifted unexpectedly.
The Deep State is EVIL...Want MORE proof ???
And they call them self scientists and they fail😠😠😠 god bless the bikini people 🙏🙏🙏
The older I get the more I learn just how little I know about what goes on in this world, we are on this planet floating around space all alone and yet we seem destined to wipe ourselves out of existence for what, a moment of glory and domination over others.
The Asiatic Blackman is Allah.
We are not alone. Trillions of galaxies and planets out there. No way we are alone
The sun of man has searched for that mystery god for trillions of years and was not able to find such a thing, so they have agreed that the only god is the sun of man. So they lose no time searching for that wich does not exist.
@@muchi1465 the sun of man has not searched well enough sorry to say
@@TheBravo13x , you want to play the opressor(s)'s advocate here and I'm not playing that game. Trillions of years (enough) is (enough) trillions of years. AND i have not received anything but hunger, nakedness and out of doors from the ones who advocate for (the existence of) that mystery god.
The documentary was excellent. As a US Navy service member I was in the Marshall Islands aboard USS Pearl Harbor in 2013 and had no idea about these injustices to both the Marshallese people and my Army brothers. 😢😢😢😢
I watched a PBS show about a team of scientist that visited a island that was right in the center of some of the largest nuclear explosions in the pacific and they were surprised how low the the radiation level was. Only when they picked up a coconut and tested it did the Geiger counter give out a warning about dangerous levels. Turns out that the radioactive isotopes are able to bond with the calcium found in coconuts. Shame that someone has not mailed the plutonium to those in Washington D.C.
Saying things like that is how you get watched by that exact government. Genius lol
As a Marshallese, I’m angry! As an American, I’m disgusted! As a retired Veteran, I feel betrayed!
I am a retired vet also and I feel exactly the same! It's unprecedented the whole deal it's unforgivable. I thought I represented some great when I served. I could not of been more wrong.
Truly terrible And now look at the US/NATO proxy war in Ukraine and a looming ww3....
Man, that was very concise and well stated. Umm, I wish I could the point facts as you did. Thanks.
Most veterans exposed to CBR are betrayed constantly. With me it is agent orange damage denied compensation.
Dad witnessed Castle Bravo. He worked for a contractor [Holmes & Narver] building support structures, mess halls, etc. He told me, his team would be out in the Sunshine shirtless and in shorts. Occasionally scientists would show up in full PPE.
As an American, I would rather my tax dollars go to cleaning this mess up (since our military-industrial complex created it) than investing in more conflict. We can’t remove the health problems people already have, but we can take care of those people as best modern medicine can. It’s just the right thing to do.
People like you give me hope! Thanks!
i don't think our government works like that. doesn't matter if most of us want something unless we do it ourselves.
CJ you have just one half way eye open. But thanks.
LamBrainMcCain It just can't be done, there is so much radioactive waist here and they don't know what to do with it. This time we need the ET.
Maybe way in the future when we don't depend that much.on money
I grew up in the Marshalls and learned all this years later It's a shame what government has done and what will be done
Disturbing how easily the government can do this to a people and then leave it poisonous!
Don't care
We are disgusted by North Korea's ways but have mistakes like this and ignore it still exists
This is no mistake. Don't be a sheep!
@@yaadise7en636 mis·take
/məˈstāk/
noun
an action or judgment that is misguided or wrong.
Say again?
Was this really a "mistake" though?? I think not. This just shows how evil government can be.
What do you think America, Russia,china does with all their spent rods and waste today from their nuclear power plants.
And the whole world is disgusted by USA
'The wind failed to follow the predictions'... LOL, how about 'we messed up the predictions and we are fully responsible for radioactive dust falling on people'???
I assume they made no predictions whatsoever. They just hoped no people would be impacted. When they were they had their cover story ready to go: blame a faulty wind prediction.
@@EchoBravo370 they did. At the time the US owned the Marshall Islands. If it went somewhere they didn’t want it to go that means, at the very least, that’s a huge mess they need to clean up and lots of money.
Ikr, what wordsmith came up with that description
That is attorney language right there lol
probably in theyr calculations the cost of one single test far exceeded the value of the people living there
My Uncle Richard Masculine was One of those Soldiers, who is no longer here, who fought for the soldiers and himself, and died and also had Cancer, I Loved him very much, and he showed me all the pictures and told me about the villagers as well, and everything that is being talked about in this video😪🤬
Rest in Peace Richard Masculine. Masculine was one of the founding members of our Enewetak Atoll Atomic Debris Cleanup Mission Group here on Facebook. He died of health complications due to the radiation exposure he was exposed to at Enewetak Atoll. The radiation we were exposed to is an almost silent killer. It has caused cancer and other health issues in many of us. Richard will be missed by all the soldiers who knew him. My condolences to his family and all who knew him. May God find peace for his soul!
This takes "little knowledge is dangerous." to a whole new level. Mistakes from the old generation can have an impact on the future generations. I pray for Everyone's safety.
“For the good of mankind”
Many years later; still cannot go back to our homeland because it’s covered with radiation. doesn’t sound soo good.
Lifes not fair broski.
@@Try_The_Soup wow dude you know there is a thing called compassion...... and that's what these people need...........get over it life's unfair,wtf is wrong with you
@@Try_The_Soup Wow..
@@Try_The_Soup would you like it if you were in their position? Life isn’t fair but that doesn’t mean we can’t try and make it better.
@@Try_The_Soup You're a shell of you're former self
The island called bikini makes me think that’s why they named spongebobs house bikini bottom they’re all mutated radioactive creatures
It is
That's actually a fact
I think they just wanted to name the town butt without anyone ever realizing
Mind blown...
You’re right. Teacher taught me that in high school
UN give her standing ovation, then what? Nothing ever will be done.
Difficult to keep comments respectful after hearing this. It’s even more horrific that the US government wasn’t taking responsibility for the aftermath…I am surprised that this documentary is available! I am just as responsible for our government because I have been so ignorant and selfish! It’s no wonder we have been called the ‘ugly Americans’ …shame, shame on us! As I write this I realize that there are no words that can make up for the suffering that has been experienced from those who suffer the aftermath while the ones who made the decisions and covered up the horrific results seemingly get away unscathed!
Wake up America! We/I can no longer ‘bury my/our heads in the sand’ and claim to be innocent because we have have not been informed or are so uneducated to the horrors that are perpetrated to mankind and our beautiful planet…let’s use our voice and choices to speak up! It’s never ‘too late’ it can’t be because then it appears hopeless! I cannot and will not entertain hopelessness! I remain faithful in a power greater than myself and advocate justice through exposure in order to avoid another catastrophe perpetrated by greed… “Forgive us Father for we have sinned…”
Oh don't worry some nation gone hit us and hit us well
How have I never heard of this.. what else are we not taught in history class. This is terrible
That is just a little bit of our history.... Look at what we have done to the indigenous peoples here and the atrocities we have commited that were never shown to us.
This is old news -- I heard about this decades ago
@@candicegerman9793 I only heard about this from this website. Never heard a peep about nuclear weapons testing At All going through grade school. We knew nukes had been created, and what they've been used on in war-time, but literally NOTHING else was mentioned. If you want to learn anything interesting regarding them, you need to do research on it yourself.
Saint Laurent Don if that dome is under water and all that radiation Is just poring out in to the Oceans and is bing cared all around the world by the current and sea life that would kind of explain why more and more people are popping up with cancer
Candice German this my be old news but if that place is under water and all that radiation is poring out in to the ocean that’s not a good look for all those people who don’t understand ocean currents don’t stop and will carry all that radiation right to the beaches
I hope the YT algorithm pushes this so more people can learn about this.
We need to make sure all that radiation is not dumped into the ocean.
Edit; I'm glad so many people agree!
Thanks for all the likes 💕
So share it with your friends and anyone who will listen, look, watch.
We also need to make sure these islanders have a place to live and the Soldiers that handled the dome are able to play for the bills they have as a result of the government's lies. Remember MK Ultra too. The government has a history of lies and the people affected by this tragedy need compensation. I call it a tragedy because people were lied to and the liveable environment was ruined in many places do to radiation and people died do to the after effects of the radiation they were exposed to making the dome.
I wonder how those government officials live with themselves knowing that after that flawed dome was built years later it will slowly leak, affecting the whole world. What "good" is that!!!!
i knew about this quite a long time ago from cartoons, Bikini Bottom From sponge Bob Square pants actually refers to This Bikini island
Jose Melendez they feel fine, if not great
The same latitude as Panama where many of my relatives were diagnosed with leukemia in 1967! The nuclear dust moved east over the pacific at same latitude! She was only 39 years old and suffered terribly for five years!
I was there in 1986,87,88,89,90,91,while I was worked at Air Marshal Islands .
This is just disgusting!As an American,I’m embarrassed.
bcahearn124 what i also dont like is the propaganda that the americans did they literally didnt care about the people 😥
And no other country in the world has made horrific mistakes??? Come on, read up and catch up on your history.
America remains the only country to attack another sovereign state with a nuclear weapon. Two wrongs don't make a right.
why are u embarrassed? i’m so confused why people are saying this video is bad. where are we supposed to put the waste? it has to go somewhere! and don’t say we shouldn’t have had the bombs cuz the soviet union would’ve taken our country out without them!
@@michaelgerlach2736 ignorant comment lol
They could dig up the 80,000 cubic meters of waste under the dome and dump it in the garden in the Centre of the Pentagon.
agreed. and the whitehouse.
…perhaps Mar-a-lago might be more appropriate?
Spot on!! I agree they should do that !!
@@rodneyjweltham150 couldn't agree more... thank you
Right on Joe and Pelosi front lawn.
I would’ve paid attention in history class if they taught us about things like this, this is really important to our future as human beings and more people should know about this. It’s sad that I’m 22 and just now learning that this even happened..
The tests should never have left Nevada. It was morally indefensible to do this.
"we were lied to" seems to be a common pattern
american swallow the lies easily. A naive nation.
@@JonathanVaucher talk about our government not the people, two totally separate entities
American military personnel during the nuclear testing were constantly exposed to the blasts and never told that it was dangerous or that they should worry. Lots of bad deeds were committed.
@@JonathanVaucher, you can thank the government school system and the Establishment news/entertainment cabal for that.
Yeah that's because they lie a lot!!!
I hope in my lifetime we get human decency figured out. This is disgusting.
Given how long we’ve been around, I’m sad to say we probably never will.
Won't happen ain't no decent human
Never happen
Hate to say it but if there were no democrats we'd have a halfway chance of the right thing being done. Just look at all the money they spent of the taxpayers dollars trying to get Trump out of office and going against the citizens of the United States...
@@dorothy4698 you poor, poor misguided soul... You poor, poor misguided soul.... I could say that infinitely, and yet still feel you don't understand me, life, anything really... You poor, poor misguided soul...
My father was in the Navy he was there during the testing. He had multiple types of cancer. He knew it was from the blast. He said they felt the shockwave and the fallout came down on the ship.
What a very sad situation to these wonderful people 😢 ! What we ,our military have done to our soldiers that "cleaned up " the island are suffering for the rest of their lives !! This is so sad.
I am learning about this as an old lady !!
Prayers for our soldiers and the people of those atolls 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank You!
This place is so beautiful, and the U. S. government ruined it It's like someone take a shit in your house and then left.
...without flushing
it's not their fault !! plus the Marshall island it's back to normal ,and the food there s healthy too... we people need to stop Bs'ing about that island!!!😂
@@kintsiruji7269 gullible is not in the dictionary
@@kintsiruji7269 cap
@@kintsiruji7269 Kints Iruji - You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
It's a shame that not a lot of us know about this injustice. It's sickening to think that these people were just used...as if they were inanimate objects
It’s a shame and it’s deeper then this.. Shell Chevron in the Amazon. Mining companies, eg precious metals in Indonesia. Super powers/corporations have no regard for human life. Genocide is real
Narcissistic attitudes of super powers... everyone is an useable object.
Imagine,mankind will self destruct
Not even Greta talks about this....
All governments will use you as a object because we made them rich and our Master's
I knew one of those 4000 soldiers, met him in Germany in 1983 Xray's showed he had spots on his lungs, then, and told me that he believed it came from his time helping to build the dome. I lost touch, but always hoped things worked out for him.
It definitely didn’t work out well for him uk that 😂
My father worked on this project "cleaning it up" circa 1979. Couple with his Agent Orange exposure during 2 tours in Vietnam the radiation didn't help. He had a myriad of issues all traced back to these assignments. We lost him in 2021.
This breaks my heart. My husband passed this past June. He was exposed to Agent Orange while in the navy. Shame on those that had a hand in all the destruction of innocents.
"The wind failed to follow the predictions"
this is a crime against humanity, coming from a 25 year retired vet.
They knew the fall out would cause illness and still lied about it. This whole thing is terribly disgusting 🤬
Exactly 💯, they are disgusting
Do the research. This fallout, these tests, and the Chernobyl/Fukushima disasters ALL contribute to “global warming”. It’s not us driving around in cars. The nuclear industry is a death cult.
@@areyoujelton Except Fukushima was at least well handled to the point that the casualties are extremely minimized.
@@areyoujelton nuclear power is one of the cleanest ways to get energy and believe it or not nuclear causes the least amount of death.
@@zaberfang only the immediate people, we have decades to find out exactly what the cost will be. All love to Japan, accident’s are accidents for a reason, but the ocean is nice and radiated again.
My grandfather was stationed at Eniwetok with the Army in the 50's. He was a Jeep mechanic and a barber. Growing up I just assumed that Eniwetok was a household name... Especially because the first H-bomb was tested there. How wrong I've been as I've gotten older. We still have one of his servicemen's jackets, complete with a giant mushroom cloud embroidered on the back. A different era for sure. Grandpa died relatively young and was quite ill in his later years. Most of the family feels pretty certain his health problems were largely caused by exposure to fallout and contaminated sand.
I'm married to a Marshallese family. Regardless of that, I find it disgusting an entire race was almost wiped out of existence. My wife told me a lot of the elders still suffer. Marshalese people are some of that most caring, welcoming,and family oriented people I've ever met.
Clicked on this video out of simple curiosity and was opened on a new hidden topic that the rest of the world doesnt know about...we need to see more of this
The rest of the world knows. That's why they hate is. American history books kept US ignorant. So much for American EXCEPTIONALISM
..hidden? Its each persons decision to research history for themselfs or just watch some stupid netflix and close their eyes on such things...
@@nachtaktiv1 ok
@@Akinsh58 He is correct and that is the reason for this quote which is on a plaque where ?
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”-George Santayana
@@Akinsh58 We don't hate you..Anymore than I hate the people of China..What I do hate is corrupt men and politicians..
i was born and raised here on enewetak atoll, then moved to hawaii for about 20 years now, i cant watch the whole video, makes me cry and mad at the same time, sorry im out
Nga mihi Nani Kia kaha ehoa.
Nani Tarkio They didn’t have any other place to test the bomb, a bomb can’t be tested on New York. Also they moved people before the test. Also now it’s not that radioactive anymore. The tests helped a lot scientists and was necessary in case of wars or Meteorite emergency
Solid_Snake how about testing your bombs in your own home? If it’s New York that’s your problem. These people didn’t ask for this. Shameful.
I am a citizen of the United States and I am deeply saddened by this. History class has never told us what we should know. I am truly sorry.
Solid_Snake Nevada......it’s huge and for the most part a waste land. Plenty room to test the bombs there rather than other people’s land.
This is disgraceful! I’m a middle aged, college educated American woman, WHY am I just now learning about this??? Especially shameful are the veterans who helped clean this up & cannot even get adequate healthcare. smh
We need to call & write to our congress persons, DEMAND that something be done about that leaky dome, that compensation be given to these people & that our veterans be cared for adequately. All the stupid shit we get taxed to pay for & we’re not even covering adequate health coverage for the veterans who are now sick because of the things they were ordered to do to try to protect us! Shameful!!
I was 9 years old held a presentation about the the two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 of august 1945. It was 1972 the children didn’t make a sound while I was talking. I still ask myself whom got the message. Now another thing in 2023 I’m 60 years old watching this documentary, what are the lessons learned in order to preserve this blue jewelry in space to stay our home.
How can governments get away with this, absolutely disgraceful, they should be held accountable.
Karen Rose because governments have to protect their OWN people before others🤷🏻♂️
If it is any consolation Karen the U.S government still have nuclear weapons that are "Lost" off their coasts, like the Tybee Bomb and they refuse to get them out.
Dante 4209 yesss!!! thank you
Dante 4209 these people are so dumb
“Like that’s ever gonna happen”
-Shrek
Its like when you where younger and where told to tidy your room, instead of actually cleaning up the mess you just throw a sheet over it and call it a day.
Except this has dire consequences. Absolutely disgusting.
or stuffed everything under the bed! lol
The raidation level was safew within 2 days. No big deals hear. Thansk Yopus.
i Love Cops if it’s atomic waste as they imply it has plutonium 238, which has a half life of like 20,000+ years I think. It’ll kill for generations when it gets in the ocean. Just like Chernobyl will kill for generations and Fukushima I think leaked plutonium.
Except your bedroom is a tiny island in the middle of the ocean
My dad was stationed on a sea going tug boat. The Abnaki. The boat was anchored in the lagoon at Enewitak. The airforce flew overhead, dropped the bomb, it blew. The men had to dive in and log any changes in the ocean floor.. He went thru 17 blasts. He died at the age of 45. I was born missing a hand.😢
Similar to the burn pits in military areas. Veterans are just now receiving treatment for cancers.
Finally, I’m not even surprised about the treatment of the troops. Not the first time they’re treated as disposable and won’t be the last. So many people preach alignment with troops, but are very ok with them never receiving care after the work is done.
I agree
Are you American Indian I am a and I'm aware that most women have an a at the beginning of their name and an a at the end of their name I am Cherokee what is your historical nationality if you don't mind me asking you are beautiful too by the way
@Thomas Panyi not all but a great deal of them it's either started with an a at the ending with an a at the begining a or both or a whole bunch of a's those are real names they're not trying to be cool although it is pretty cool
Some people care about us. Most just don't even know about it all. Few don't care.
You have to remember that there was so much pressure on the government at this time. The country kept on changing from peace to beating the Russians to bits. Also you have to consider that not too much was known about radiation at this time. Now while I’ll give to you that I’m sure the scientists did know it was not good. But honestly would you rather have this nuclear waste out in the open waiting to be stored, or would you take a risk to seal the stuff up. Yes the dome is failing, but this island is out in the middle of nowhere. And some digging tech hasn’t been simplified, or even invented to be used at this time. It should also be noted that while I have no doubt as a conservative that climate change is real. I do think it’s been blown out of proportion. Politicians use this to get voters now. Saying they’ll enlarge our 23 trillion dollar debt to build more wind farms, and to pay thousands to check the temperature every morning. That’s not the worst of it though. A group of people sat in front of train tracks to stop some coal from being delivered. Guess what a multi-ton vehicle can’t do? Stop on a dime. Luckily they moved before being flattened. But the saddest of all of this is that NASA reported that in the last 100 years the average temperature has only risen a tenth of a percentage. So there you have it ladies and gentlemen.
I made a presentation about this two years ago in my history class. The carelessness has personally affected my family. More people need to know the damage already done and what could happen if it's further ignored.
We need to speak about the nuclear waste tomb, spread the word.
Sounds like they got paid, more justice than most get
@@REPR100 who got paid??
Russian
Our "environmentalists" are concerned about 400K gallons of treated nuke waste from Japan being dumped in the ocean. This makes that water look like swamp water.
How is nuclear so safe, then, or is that just another psyop?
So...there IS NO "clean energy"...
I mean, they picked literally one of the most desolate places on earth. Look at this place on google earth and zoom out. It's all ocean. There's nothing even there. Yeah the storage and health of these people is beyond despicable, but that's about it. Needing to return to the island after 3 decades knowing that nuclear tests were done on it and saying they poisoned you is kind of crazy.
"The wind failed to follow the predictions"
you spelled "we were wrong" wrong.
Everything UA-cam is recommending to me the past couple days is very terrifying and incredibly saddening. What we have done to this earth and it's people is sickening. As an American, I sincerely apologize to all countries, its natives and our mother earth.
And China has hidden secrets, continues to lie, are we really that much different? We've caused this, in the most remote location, far away from any news and TV reporters. It's no wonder most of us have never heard of this. Our gov't trying to convince people they never worked there? How crazy do they think we are? Another WTF? moment in history, opening some of our eyes for the first time, tried to keep it a well hidden secret, you can run but not hide.
Lifes little lesson we all have to learn because the earth is going down to many people to many diseases disasters and to much worrie about money and power one day it's just all going to stop abandoned earth
Sad part is there are still idiots who think they can continue to take from the planet and expect no repercussions for it
Germany exterminated 12 million of its own citizens. Soviet Russia 50 million. Communist China 50 million and counting. THOSE genocidal countries should be apologizing not the USA (which has opposed all those regimes)
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Apologies not accepted. Ask the US government to take it back to US land and disposed it.
its 2020, i'm afraid that no action has been taken because we have not
heard anything so far.
Hi John. I am embarrassed to say that this is the first ive heard of this. Its madness that the government not only poisons the earth, they do a half ass job of cleaning/hiding it. More awareness to this is needed. Ive shared the video on my Facebook and its already been shared 36 times since yesterday morning.
Mankind can be some very sick people at times and why would would America do that it is absolutely not needed what is the point hundreds of people were sent away and America try to hide it. It is sickly I'm honestly shocked
@@sgtrexy1479do you think as an american, would starting a petition to our government requiring them to help in some way actually do anything ?
Jonathan Estrada probably not. They government does not care.
Sorry to say but you are probably right especially with someone like trump who does not believe in global warming or climate changes and least not forget these islands and surrounding areas have people of color a jackass like trump will not care.
Forgive me if I'm incorrect but it was my understanding that the producing country remains responsible for the nuclear waste for as long as it exists - meaning the United States can handwave on its responsibility all it likes because they are still, by international law, responsible for what is under that dome.
It is disgusting that this was ever allowed to happen to the Marshall Islands. But trying to shove off responsibility to an island nation without the resources to deal with their mess is utterly appalling on the US's part and morally bankrupt to boot. But given how they poisoned their own in the clean-up and lied about it, and continue to use those in their military services in obscene ways, it is hardly surprising.
I did a 5th or 6th grade project on the Marshall Islands and my teacher told me to not put any negative info and keep it positive and took out the nuke info Smh now I feel my A+ was tainted
My dad has a myriad of health problems because of US government negligence. Seeing those two old soldiers talk hits really hard, because I know the frustration their family feels as they watch them suffer and the government pretend it never happened.
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My prayers go out to your dad, family, and anyone else affected by this❤🙏🏻
It's been affecting people for decades and they still don't do anything about it, it's infuriating.
My great-grandpa and 4 other family members died because of the exposure (my great-grandfather was stationed there for the Navy).
Business as usual...
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Us government = trash
How sad it is that humans destroy such beautiful placed. Really breaks my heart.
Humans as in just The United States Government
@@ManuelFlores-uq3bh humans as in humans. The United states is not the only country ruining the earth, the whole world contributes. Dont pin it on one country.
it is a literal paradise. imagine how lucky the first ones to settle there must have felt. imagine how big it must have been back then. a beautiful lagoon in the middle of an island in the middle of the ocean with reefs of fish all around. life could not get any better.
imagine being the soulless monster who sees this and thinks "let's blow it up"
@dillon bob are you kidding? please show me your source. they got the equivalent of 200USD each
you must be a very hateful negative person
@dillon bob so concrete facts will not sway your opinion because youre a patriot? Tell me sir, what is the definition of a cult?
I've traveled to many places on earth. My favorite is a Coral reef.
Makes me sick to think and know they have been bombed and ruined.
My Dad was US Army Retired. 24 years.He joined in December 41. He served two tours there with Task Force 7 and participated in 24 subsurface, surface and atmospheric tests with the Signal Corps. It killed him, he passed from a rare bone cancer. His bones became so thin that they had to put several rods in to keep his bones from breaking. I have his cigarette lighter with a map of the atoll and mushroom cloud engraved on it along with some large declassified photos.
And then you understood the dark context of Bikini Bottom
nice sponge bob reference
It true that’s why they keep showing those clips of the bikini test nukes
Minh Nguyen bahahahahahaaa!!! Why is it that this doesn't have the heart next to it? !! fail !!
Aye Aye Matey!
Radiation contamination is the biggest environmental disaster in human history.
This is identical to Chernobyl and Fukushima, the clean up is so costly they would rather watch it slowly fade away.
@JGD well if the US government put it there, they should do something about it to clean it up yeah. They are threatening ppl and have no right to do so. Maybe a good idea would be to invest some money for research on how to clean this shit up without having to send people only to get radiated?
@JGD so insensitive
Hardly comparable.
JGD no one should go there, they shouldn’t have used their land. America itself is MASSIVE, they should’ve used their own soil for every single one of these tests.
@JGD As many as it takes.
The WORLD needs to get our priorities straight & clean up this mess! Fund robots together that will address this mess-not use people. Just one of MANY terrible injustices to native people.
Very shameful and embarrassing to know the US did this and have yet to do anything to rectify this mess. Another reason on the list that the USA is disliked by so many...wow😕
I grew up in Springdale, Arkansas which is where the largest Marshallese population exists outside of the Marshall Islands. I’ve known about this my entire life. Their entire population is challenged with cancer still to this day. Very sad.
We don't need your money...We need answer "Why" I'm from Bikini and I lost lot of family for nothing but Money..What you think about lost your family?? Money is nothing for our Country.
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Classic example of the average person's perception was just played out again, billions of lost souls worshipped at the altar of the lies that destroyed their world.
These fools truly believe that the only way to change it is by voting...
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My father was here in the late 70's. He is lucky that he shows zero signs of cancer or sickness from his time there.
I hope both your fathers continue in good health.
I lost my own beloved Dad aged 69. He had spent 30 years as an overhead linesman for a British Electricity company and often worked on live power lines. After a lifetime of horrendous headaches he developed a lump in his right cheek which was found to be malignant and then several lesions were found on his brain. Many of his work friends died of similar cancers yet it’s not accepted by those in power! (That wasn’t an intended pun)
Mrs Frogzilla is this thought to be caused electro magnetic radiation coming from power lines?
@@AbsoluteMiniacGena my Dad died at ahe 69 too..but of Parkinsons
Earl Arthur the locals been there since we evolved from being cavemen
Lucky man. Eh?
I am an American. I was born in the U.S.. I am an elder, the longer I live, my eyes are opened to how corrupt my home country is. I am ashamed.
God bless the people of the Marshall Islands.
May Almighty God bless your family and your land.
Keep you safe and secure for ever and ever.
“They were careless people … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
The Great Gatsby
Great Quote
A duty to the world? It meant we are taking your home and evicting you! As an American I am deeply sorry and embarrassed
Talk about cruelty!!
There are no words for this!!
Sorry and sad for the world we live in.
A billion people around the world went into exile with out any compensation or support. Most never returned to their destroyed homes. War is difficult for everyone
My dad watched the nuclear testing at MontiBello SA Australia. He died of Mesothelioma. He got no compensation. He also collected the sea mines after war time, and again got no comp. Defence forces need to send there heads to clean up etc. Or have them live there long enough, to suffer the same diseases these poor men suffer.
it is very hard to believe that the US government won’t help to pay the medical expenses of the remaining soldiers that did the cleanup. What a great country the USA is…
People need to stop joining the death machine. The only way we survive as a species is to come together as one race, look out for our fellow humans, and drop all conflicts.
We need to respect the military history, not worship and glorify it to entice more naive young men. 🇦🇺
@@areyoujelton yeah good luck with that
I'm a Marshallese and I'm sorry for your lost. My dad was also on that island as part of the clean up and agriculture experimental project. His job was to dig the soil and plant trees including coconut trees to see if they can grow. This if after every vegetation on that island were burnt down by the blast. To make my story short, he also died in his early 50s. He died after battling 20+ years of painful fight with so many cancers from lung cancer to skin cancer, thyroid cancer you name it. For what "the good of mankind"???
more people need to know about this. I had no idea how devastating the US was to Oceania until I moved to Hawaii. It is terrible. There's a devastated island off Maui where the military cracked the water table. There are unexploded bombs in the ocean and coral. It is absolutely awful.
It is wasn’t the US it would be China or Japan doing the same shit. We need to stop pretending that everything would be better if the US didn’t exist.
Those bombs are not an issue at all. They are harmless. It is not a matter of massive fission products getting released into the environment. It's a bit of uranium which is natural, it is a bit of plutonium which is in such a small amount that it is pointless to even discuss, and the rest? Just metal and common explosives. A nuclear bomb that has not detonated is not toxic nor radioactive in the sense of fissile waste products. If you want to be upset and make a point, at least have the decency to know what it is you are supposed to be upset about.
Ever heard of the Japanese attack on pearl harbor?
Ugh …..say that out loud , and listen to yourselves……..wtaf
Lol, yea, UXO totally isn't a global humanitarian issue
I was assigned to an LSD that was assigned to transport an irradiate barge from Johnston Island to Enewetak. That object easily fit in out well deck. The transport went off without a hitch. After it was dropped off we set to the task of washing the well deck. We were told not to lay or exercise there. It was after seeing this I recalled sighting this concrete dome. I was assigned to the USS Fort Fisher - sight of it chilled me then, angers me now.
My Dad, was there. It killed Him. Love you Dad.
America is like someone who never look at themselves at the mirror. Telling others bad but always denial of their own fault
I’m English & feel the same about England’s ‘empire’ it’s shameful :(
@Tom Evers How many voted Trump?
@Tom Evers Yup, and I don’t downplay it... it’s disgusting and I’m not patriotic in the slightest.
@Tom Evers is the "not all men", "not all white people", "not all Americans" guy. The "I didn't personally do it so I'm not responsible" guy. Give me a break, look how defensive you're getting. You're being a part of the problem right now.
Yup
This is sad. Frustrating. the least the US could do is pick the bill for these guys medical care treatment. Com’ on
Why the US? England is the bankers, Rome is the religion leaders, US is the military...
They get checks dont let the video fool you
If radiation has such a long half life for poisoning people, why are these so called regions i.e. japan (Hiroshima etc), Russia etc now have thriving communities and even tourism?> propaganda.
Ted Nugent Chernobyl
crowmagg1 you’re damn right I bet they get checks! No check is big enough to give these people back what the us military took from them by detonating those bombs. America should be tried for this as a crime against humanity
The USA needs to PAY to repair the damage they have done! 🤮
The poison is not just on the islands, but throughout the pacific ocean.
I'm not even from this country but looking at this, I feel so violated.
@Ben A dude wtf?
@Ben A You wont Understand. Its a great lie. Does nuclear testing good for man kind? Islanders think positively and got cought in a lie by who, the Americans?
@Ben A you people are going to pay heavy for every crime you committed
@@Ogun1804Ogun Do you really think the citizens of the U.S. wanted this? What the hell could they have possibly done to prevent this?
The U S has violated the whole planet. Power.
One of my co-workers worked on that cleanup site while in the navy. It was a top secret operation. He has started to get sick, but the DOD states that no cleanup ever had taken place
I am sickened by the despicable behavior. As an American I am ashamed of what we have done to these people.
It’s unbelievable what is being done to us…
"The wind failed to follow that prediction"
No sir, you failed to predict it.
exactly my thoughts.. dont blame it on the friggin weather blame it on whoever pulled the trigger
Or they didn't predict it at all
Peter Seymour---as they said: a few people's lives sacrificed to save millions....if you haven't noticed: there haven't been any nukes used since World war 2 😉
Nobody fail to predict anything, they just do not care. They just wanted to show power.
Why isn’t this cleanup Priority No. 1 ????? Horrible.
this is how the sponge started talking
@@dianaramirezjara9659 that was the joke i made, welcome to the club....
Best comment on this video so far
@@dianaramirezjara9659 well that's interesting theory
Omg that is so funny looooool! :D
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We, the United States, owe these people a life, a living, a future. We owe the parents, the grandparents, justice. We should be begging them for mercy and forgiveness for our mistreatments and arrogance of our past. We owe the children, the grandchildren a safe and full life now and for futures to come. Watching this made me cry in sadness, and so so ashamed. The people in our government, and military heads ... not the soldiers, who were also taken advantage of and forgotten...should be dumped to eek out a living there and these people given THEIR and their ancestors assets in America! Nuclear war, nuclear energy, nuclear weapons should have never have been invented nor attempted to be brought into use. I know there are other countries responsible as well for these kind of monstrous doings, but I can only speak for my country. We should have been smarter, better, more conscious of our planet, its beautiful abundance and its life all around. We still behave as if we are the most important, our comfort and privelages now above even our children's. We deserve this planets fury, most of mankind, but there are so many who really do not, yet they usually suffer first, and the worst. I am truly sorry. I don't like feeling ashamed of my country, I wish I could stick my head in the sand and rationalize everything to feel better, but the older I get and the more truth I learn, the more impossible that is. It is no wonder certain people are against teaching truth in schools about our history and atrocities committed against other nations, because it is damn bad for "morale". But maybe we need to think about truths and finding a better way based on love, empathy and responsibility instead of our gain.
There is a lot that usa will have to do but I'm afraid they punishment will be they down fall... the punishment will come either through God or if they accept they responsibilities.
Well done Americans, you’re never satisfied until there’s nothing left
How come the history books are skipping this story?
because now they can sit on the dome in case of rising sea levels, that should be enough to their comfort?
because it would menace and dismantle the American international propaganda of " Russia/China/Cuba/the comunist are liars and hide stuff".
Only the US history books
nobody care if you take history class.. you won't learn anything else.. the fact is we had alot of area where that will kill you... hence why i try not to go everywhere.. where i can see online... i can enjoy the bench in my bath...
The Asiatic Blackman is Allah.
I never heard of this and it is shameful how we treated the home of these people as well as our servicemen. My father died from agent exposure in 2014 and they denied he was close enough to it even though he worked on the planes that dropped agent orange. He had every illness on the list of linked conditions and they still refused to list him as exposed.
As. Kiwi I am amazed that Bikini Island testing of weapons and the resultant fallout is not common knowledge. We knew about it years ago. I guess the US military have kept it a secret.
"the wind failed to follow that prediction"
talk about arrogance and passing the blame. wow just wow
I find it hard to believe in the 1970s you did not know how bad to health radiactive waste was; there were thousands of publications and books on the subject.
This broke my heart and pissed me off at the same time!
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Yeah bro sad as
me too, made me feel bad
then help america fight iranian nuclear program or the development of the third world
Vote for Bernie so we can get this fixed
Its weird that I went here on Google earth and I was like 'huh what is that, well I guess we will never know'
Little did I know...
This seems to be the story of every indigenous person on the planet
My dad was on Enewetak during the testing.