VICE has been on an insanely consistent curve of failure and extreme bias. Unfortunately, they lost their trust from a gigantic majority of the public. Maybe one day they can actually do something even remotely similar to this news piece again. But it’s not likely. They have failed.
This "they're not civilized like us" statement is true. Pacific islanders are not perfect, but for sure they are not taking uncivilized pride in pointless torture. Unfortunately, we (or our descendants) are going to pay ten times, this horrifying crime, in our own flesh.
My grandfather was one of the testers for this; he was a diver who would observe the underwater conditions directly after the bombs were detonated. He died at 56 years old from cancer caused by the high levels of radiation.
@V3RTIGO222 they never pursued anything but I do know my grandma had some sort of substantial pension for the remainder of her life. I mean, it was the military and they really had no idea what the severity of the fallout damage would be for people in its proximity.
Yea, they didnt really understand radiation near as we do now, Back then. Even now we hardly know half of it, If that. I don't understand how someone who understands and was schooled on nuclear science, could make this stuff.
"A baby born with no arms, and no legs... and no head." Literally watched those few seconds about 20 times. The way she nonchalantly threw that in there made me audibly say WHAT in a quiet room full of people. It's just insane to hear that.
You realize that woman that stated the findings, is an advocate for exposing these declassified documents right? She's not being insensitive about this subject.
@blayworld We feel the same way about them building skyscrapers, giant resorts, golf Courses, Condos, Vacation Rentals & Airbnb's all over the Hawaiian Islands!
imagine how psychotic it is to do nuclear testing in nevada, iinfecting the greater amounts of our own country with fallout and disease. all for war. spits
Yeah I didn't know they people existed til this video. I literally knew Marshall islands were part of the U.S. I thought they spoke English though itbdoesnt even sound spanish
My father in law served in the army in the 70s, he was sent to clean up the islands, no ppe, no clean drinking water etc, a lot of people that served over there are no longer alive, died horrible painful deaths. The government recognizes him as an atomic veteran after years of trying to get justice, no compensation. I also feel for the people who are native to the Marshall Islands they didn’t deserve that
@@Ryan-qr8yl he’s still alive and kicking he’s a good man, he went on to be a paramedic and firefighter, but him and his wife (my mother in law) tried to have a child for yrs, my fiancé was a miracle baby and has had no major issues thank god, but he could tell you some stories. Government lied to these young poor men living up north in the 70s saying hey do you wanna go to an island paradise? Not knowing that they were going to be picking up nuclear war materials and drinking contaminated water, fishing in that water eating the fish.
My dad died of leukemia and my mom fought autoimmune diseases most of her life, both likely attributable to being downwinders in the southwest. My mom told me about how they could see the yellow clouds of atomic fallout blown into the valley after a test in Nevada. The fallout clouds would centralize in the canyons and foothills along Utah's Wasatch Front. Rates for Thyroid cancer and other fallout-related diseases is extremely high for the people who grew up there during the 50s, 60s, 70s. I feel for the Marshallese people. The US government committed these acts against so many people, and they knew almost the entire time what the outcome would be.
I'm very ashamed of my government. It's such a tragedy that these people in the Marshall Islands are so ignored and left to suffer with so little. They did absolutely nothing to deserve having to live and die this way. [For honest truths, pls read the informative and insightful, multi-page comment by 'Mister Lianghui' at, "The Coming War on China": ruclips.net/video/V42KtSeo3uI/видео.htmlsi=gaElCf8Iekxh8yiB].. The fact that they don't even have running water or electricity is bad enough, but these poor people don't even have medical care that could greatly ease some of their pain and suffering. 😔🤷
I live in a town in Oklahoma where a lot of the Marshall islanders moved to and it’s sad knowing what was done to their homeland. I’m glad it’s being spoken about.
There's many examples of this. Like the intentional injecting of syphyllis into people of African descent to see what happens. They were completely unaware. So, as much as the nazis are to be loathed for their actions in WWII, the USA has their share of crimes against humanity to answer for.
I spent a week on Majuro last year, and had the opportunity to hear a presentation from the nuclear commission about the history of all of this. It’s one of the most somber, heart breaking things I’ve ever heard. The Marshallese people deserve better.
In 1998 I asked the DOD at a city council meeting in Needles, ‘why were sending their nuclear waste trucks the long way through Needles instead of Vegas’ and they said there were less people with money. so they were more expendable. Then I ask why they wouldn’t use the caste trucks that are less likely to leak. They didn’t answer. It was money. They were trying to put a low level “cat litter” nuclear dump in endangered species habitat over an aquifer. Genius. Failed because of protests and lawsuits. They were trying to put a low level “cat litter” nuke dump on a fault line next the the Colorado river on the Mexico border. Genius. 🤞failed because of protest and lawsuits. They succeeded in opening a nuke dump where they put steel drums of transuranic and high level waste in rooms carved out of salt deposits. There isn’t a language that has lasted long enough to warn people in the future not to dig there. It will be ☢️ for tens of thousands of years. Just like the bikini atoll. Not to mention steel +🧂+ Oxygen = rust. Genius
Ahh yes ship it thousands of miles to a concrete crater right next to a thriving ocean ecosystem. Let's NOT burry it in the middle of the desert in Nevada
@@2jsanc681 That was the site of a nuclear explosion, the islands were a testing ground... all that life around it seemingly doing just fine, somehow, all these years later.
Thriving ocean? These people can't even eat the fish! The ocean is dying thanks to heat and the millions of metal barrels they dropped out by the Farallon Islands, in old abandoned salt mines in Germany, and god-only-knows where else. That sh!t's all over the World, now our great-great-great-great-great grandchildren gotta deal with it... if humans are still alive by then~
@@2jsanc681 "In 1982, a US government task force raised concern about a probable breach if a severe typhoon were to hit the island.[6] In 2013, a report by the US Department of Energy[7] found that the concrete dome had weathered with minor cracking of the structure.[8] However, the soil around the dome was found to be more contaminated than its contents, so a breach could not increase the radiation levels by any means. Because the cleaning operation in the 1970s only removed an estimated 0.8 percent of the total transuranic waste in the Enewetak atoll,[9]: 2 the soil and the lagoon water surrounding the structure now contain a higher level of radioactivity than the debris of the dome itself, so even in the event of a total collapse, the radiation dose delivered to the local resident population or marine environment should not change significantly. Concern primarily lies in the rapid tidal response to the height of the water beneath the debris pile, with the potential for contamination of the groundwater supply with radionuclides. One particular concern is that, in order to save costs, the original plan to line the porous bottom crater with concrete was abandoned.[3] Since the bottom of the crater consists of permeable soil, there is seawater inside the dome.[3] However, as the Department of Energy report stated, the released radionuclides will be very rapidly diluted and should not cause any elevated radioactive risk for the marine environment, compared to what is already experienced.[7] Leaking and breaching of the dome could however disperse plutonium, a radioactive element that is also a toxic heavy metal.[10][11] An investigative report by the Los Angeles Times in November 2019 reignited fears of the dome cracking and releasing radioactive material into the soil and surrounding water.[1][12] The DOE was directed by Congress to assess the condition of the structure and develop a repair plan during the first half of 2020.[13] The report was published in June 2020.[9] In June 2020, the US Department of Energy released a report stating that the dome is in no immediate danger of collapse or breach and that the radioactive material within is not expected to have any measurable adverse effect on the surrounding environment for the next twenty years."
They're not wearing any protection walking around barefoot on top of the big scary leaky dome, so it's presumably low enough that they don't seem all that much concerned about it
@@DrSulikSquirrel Your reply sounds a lot like a Koch Industries/CATO institute shill. Most people who develop cancers and die from radiation poisoning, don't know that they have been poisoned until it is too late.
My father was put on one of the islands after the natives were removed. He was an Air Force Weatherman. He was still radioactive when he returned home. The first born had birth defects he couldn’t survive. The government not only mistreated the Marshal Islanders but didn’t care about the vets as well. We fought the military thru the atomic veterans association but nothing ever came of it. He passed several years ago.
Adding insult to injury was finding out they shipped all the radioactive soil from the Nevada test sites and dumped them haphazardly in the lagoon, so they didnt just ruin the Marshall Islands with the nukes they tested there but brought their radioactive garbage from elsewhere and left it there
Come on, man! What are you crying about? Lahainans got $700 per family! People in N. CA wildfires got diddly squat! We gotta feed Ukrainian soldiers first, and watch our secret bioweapons labs over there! Trillions aren't enough! We don't want Russia liberating Fauxi's next 'Disease X' virus, do we?
@@user-mh4uv that is untrue. We are sending mothballed old training aids and the companies that make them are being paid to replace them. So we are giving ourseles billions.
@@user-mh4uv how is this related ? Why should ukranians that are fighting for their country under foreign invasion pay the price for what was done in the marshall ? There is budget enough to compensate the marshall people and to help ukraine. it just needs political will.
When nuclear bombs are mentioned, we all think about Hiroshima and Japan but we must also remember the Marshall islands and their people that were nuclear testing sites to 62 nuclear bombs that were stronger than the ones dropped on Japan. Edit: I understand there were also other nuclear test sites for other countries like USSR but in this case, USA nuked a foreign nation during occupation,
They weren't attacked, but they were forcibly moved away so the US could test the area... they destroyed a lot of life and land, but the remains of 'radiation' is minimal... even Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been rebuilt and repopulated.
@@deneseiB saying they are "stronger" than the ones dropped directly on people is a bad faith argument and a huge stretch of logic, buddy. I'm all for compensation, but hydrogen bombs have been proven to be far less radioactive than the ones used during ww2... nobody in this documentary got out a Geiger counter, toxicology report, etc. which these days are all extremely cheap. They even walked over bombed areas that weren't gated off because it totally makes sense to allow people to trespass onto radioactive land and have access to radioactive particulates and the capacity to build 'dirty bombs'. Please, that's ridiculous.
@@deneseiB Saying that h-bombs are "stronger" despite giving off less radiation and clearly weren't dropped *directly on people* is a false equivalency and bad faith argument.
As a Marshallese, we understand how this is a curse, but, we also know it should be a blessing. Because our country is small and doesn’t have a lot of natural resources, but because of compact of association, we are able to have the money to develop. But we shouldn’t forget how our own people have suffered. But God is with us.
The nuclear testing in Bikini Atoll was the inspiration for Bikini Bottom in SpongeBob SquarePants and the talking marine life a result of the radiation
My grandfather was at bikini atol building airports during operation crossroads and witnessed the baker explosion. He never wanted to talk about it and in the 70s developed colon cancer. He was awarded 100% veterans benefits and was also declared an atomic veteran. He passed in 2003.
My father was a lifer military physician. He retired as a captain after 30 years then took a job at UAB in Alabama doing health maintenance on islanders of the Kwagelein Atoll. He basically reported that the culture was utterly destroyed by the process of evacuating the atoll, exploding the bomb, then repopulating the atoll a short time later. Basically they were radiation guinea pigs. Each islander was given some manner of cash settlement, like ten grand, which they squandered over the course of a generation as their culture was unaccustomed to a cash economy, and in the process of blowing through the settlement money many of the survival techniques endemic to that culture for eons and ages were lost, as they were no longer practiced because everyone was "rich" and didn't have to fish and forage etc. Massive goiters were commonplace, as were other obvious signs of radiation poisoning. Life expectancy was greatly curtailed and birth defects were common. Then the money ran out and they were totally screwed. It was a criminal act, to be sure, but nobody prosecutes a big country like the USA, now do they?
Vice was here in Marshall islands!!! i never thought in a million years vice would do a documentary here. Thank you btw for telling the world our sad history
US Government still mining Uranium near the Grand Canyon. Navajo nation and other native nation have spoke out against mining. So many People have been affected.
We tried to change things in the 60s & 70s - Woodstock, Alcatraz, etc. - but 90% of the population would rather watch get fat watching TV, or today it's blue-haired people dressed like cats dancing on TikTok. We're doomed~
I grew up in a small town in Johnson County Texas and in our community we had many Marshallese families which were the most humble and friendly people you could imagine. I was very young and didn't know the history of the Marshallese. In retrospect it makes sense because the government had not disclosed much information about the atrocities the US govt. had committed in their islands. It's incredibly sad and infuriating how so many lives were and continue to be affected by this. I hope there's some form of justice for this community.
I work at an educational facility in Hawaii and we have many students from the Marshall Islands ,just about every single one has health issues that they are dealing with,some are more serious than others.
@@stephenford6132you think the U.S. is the only one to test nuclear weapons? 😂😂 Definitely don’t look up what happened in Russia with their nuclear and chemical weapon testing
My first home was Honolulu, my little brother was born there before Queen Lili was overthrown so Hawai'i could became a US State. On behalf of the f*cked-up Gov't, I am so sorry for your people~😥 💙🌊🐟🦈🏝🌺🏞🌋🌴🤙
Let's not forget all the dead Native Americans, Germans, Italians, Koreans, Vietnamese, the Middle East, Hiroshima... The US Gov't is disgusting. The list is endless and no one is ever held accountable~
My best friend an his family is from the Marshall island how sad is this they are the nicest family I could meet I’m 32 year of age I met him in the 2 grade
The United States conducted 67 nuclear and thermonuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958, including the first H-bomb test in 1952. The tests took place at seven sites on Bikini Atoll, in the air, underwater, and at sea, and had a combined explosive power of about 77 megatons of TNT. The U.S. military also forcibly displaced thousands of Marshallese people to make way for the testing and other military activities.
Aaaaand... how many Military personnel were killed watching those tests? How many islands were blown up that completely disappeared? How many are uninhabitable now? How many people died from or have cancer today? Who can't eat the fish from the sea, or grow their own food now? And people want nuclear power where the waste rods last who-knows how many thousands of years? Nothing like passing the buck~
It’s so infuriating because the American people do not agree with what the government has done to people all around the world especially stuff like this. ..smh
@@BP-iz2lt not all, far from. which makes it more infuriating when you dont. because regardless of your personal beliefs on the matter the attribution has been made with good reason
@@BP-iz2ltI don’t. I’m American. Any destruction of any kind is frowned upon by pretty much everyone with a brain, why would I not be afraid for the world to fight with horrific blasts? That’s absolutely terrifying so I don’t know why anyone from anywhere would agree with it.
I live near Springdale, Arkansas, here there are tons of Marshallese, hearing the stories from their elders hurts a lot & are still pushed away but thankfully other minority groups include them, much love to my Micronesian friends, from the Wixáaritari Nation 🦌♥️
@@theoriginaltroll388 No, it's not. Hydrogen bombs have less radiation than older atomic bombs which didn't actually give off much radiation to begin with... Guess how populated Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now?
How many people did this effect compared to the amount dying during the war it was intended to stop? Also, the consequences were worse than most scientists expected. It’s easy to look back now and say it was evil.
@@NothingNew777 They were evil and this is inexcusable. Operation Crossroads was a completely unnecessary test that was performed as a chest thumping exercise. Would you have liked it if they made all those tests right beside your house?
@@kennyegor7503 it was, by definition, not a crime against humanity otherwise the ICC would of prosecuted it. Keep spreading misinformation its what russian bots do best.
about 80% of the displaced marshallese people in the US live in my hometown Springdale, AR. i grew up with lots of them they are really nice people, i just always thought it was crazy how nobody from other places had really even heard of them but in Springdale everyone knows a Marshallese person and signs in businesses translate in spanish as well as Marshallese. They came to the area to work for Tyson foods and Walmart primarily from what i heard, thats what attracted so many of them.
hello didnt they kill the indians to even have a Gov, then killed Earth, then Killed Africans, then killed Each other in the Civil War. Whyte Ppl. THE USA
lmao would u rather they test it on our own land?? or become the weaker link in any war?? yeah. yes this sucks but our freedom rides on this destructive bs.
@MrJayArt Nobody currently in "our" government has anything to do with this. I doubt any of you actually care at all, honestly. You'll forget about this video in the next week 😂
I had a college professor that worked out here back in the 70’s for a private company stationed on the atolls with the military. He told us about how his buddy bought an ounce of weed and his mom shipped him increments every few weeks. We all asked “how’d you do that?” “It was the 70’s brother.” He also told us he got absolutely blackout drunk with his friends one Friday on top of this concrete block. The next morning he didn’t have a hangover and that’s when he knew he had a problem and quit. Michael Moster, if you somehow see this, I went back and got my degree. I’m doing okay. You are tied with another geography professor for my all time favorite instructors. But you win because you’re one of my all time favorite people.
7:38 listening to this woman speak about her miscarriage… breaks my heart. What makes this even more crazy is that I’m from Arkansas where the US sent most , if not all, of the natural citizens of the Marshall Islands. Most still live here to this day…
My grandfather was in the navy at that time and apart of the atomic tests. I remember him telling me that they lied to the inhabitants to forcefully remove them from the islands and some of the islands are no longer there as they destroyed them. There gone, no longer on the map.
Here in NW Arkansas there is a big population of Marshallese. They are quiet and stay to themselves. I knew the US used their islands for testing but this is the first documentary I’ve seen on it. I do believe they are intentionally settled in this particular area by the US government to fill the demand for poultry production processors. Last recent arrivals to the area have been Myanmar/Burmese citizens. They are very hardworking people.
I am from the US. I am ashamed of what my country has done to the people of the Marshall Islands: generational damage. Let these people live where they would like and give them food, money, healthcare, all of it. They paid a price that was inflicted on them by bad, selfish US decisions.
Right? And they wonder why nothing grows out there... just like Hanford Nuke Site in WA State is barren for miles, fish in the Columbia River with open sores, frogs with six legs and five eyes. Ya... more nuclear power please~
The Pacific NW is not a desert @@PistonAvatarGuy, and Chernobyl is creating blue dogs. But nobody notices because no one can live there because of all the RADIATION! Nature will ultimately fix herself if humans can keep their stinking fingers out of the toxic chemicals long enough~
I was in job corps with a bunch of Marshall islanders. Still remember Wesley, obet, London Beijing, my roommate was Sandy(andi-ay), arliss. In Stead NV.
Didn't you guys release this like, years ago? I specifically remember watching this on your channel at least 4-5 years ago. Not complaining as the issue deserves attention, but why delete old videos just upload them again (besides money).
Copyright or ownership issues. Then they reupload modified versions. That must be the case here. Other reasons for reuploading are profit related. (Like gain lots of subscriptions on a new second channel.)
I've been lucky enough to get to know more than a couple Marshallese, and they have all been exceptional in their kindness and friendliness. It sucks we did this to their islands. Destroying ecosystems and lives, just to test out how effectively you can destroy more ecosystems and lives. They talk about this stuff. They do not like it.
When you see stuff like this it just drives home that more the importance of never letting an atomic war breakout and never letting atomic bombs be used again. The bombs we have now are so much more powerful than what was used in WW2, it's too much power.
"never letting atomic bombs be used again" As offensive weapons of war, sure. As defensive weapons to protect Earth from potentially devastating asteroid strikes, however, there is plenty of merit.
Did they quit teaching History in school? Nevada testing grounds? Hiroshima/Nagasaki? Operation Seaspray in San Francisco? They do atmospheric, underwater, and space tests, which they're not supposed to do because radioactive fallout flies all around the planet, but who cares, right? You probly don't know about the CIA's MK-Ultra LSD mind control experiments performed on unwitting Americans in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s 80s, 90s, and 2000s, either... but they don't do that stuff anymore, so you're okay~
@@rongike So what... they're used to it? It doesn't matter? How nonchalantly you dismiss people whose lives were ruined, who died, or are suffering from cancer, who can't even eat fish from the sea, or grow their own food anymore thanks to radiation provided by the US GOVERNMENT. No wonder this World is so f*cked up~
The Marshall Islands people should never have had this happen to them. On behalf of my country, I am truly sorry for the actions of my government. I know that is no consolation, but it's all I've got right now. It truly sickens me that this happened and we MUST do better.
2:36 If nuclear waste could be shipped from Nevada to the Marshall islands, then it can also be shipped back. The US is a large country, with plenty of space, facilities and money to dispose of this waste properly. In all likelihood much of the marshall islands will soon be underwater from sea level rises this century, the waste needs to be moved somewhere permanent.
Disgusting, and the whole world keeps silence on the Marshall Islander rights. Where is the Human Rights activist? Where is the UN? Did they protest as much they protest for Ukrainians? Palestinians? The only country that can do atrocities without being held responsible 😵💫
My country and their lack of accountability makes me disgusted. Even though this was decades before my parents were even born , we need to bring awareness to the people of the islands and their descendants. They deserve better.
6:03 "And if we run out we go swim out there and catch our fish, even though they are poisoned and they are not good for our health." THAT FISH LOOKED CRAZY. That's so fucking sad though, I swear the more I learn about the past of what our government has done, the more pissed off I get as an american, and I wanna do something about it.
Now this is the journalism i remember from Vice. Hope You keep going this path
AMEN….This is some Great Work and this has been forgotten……
If America hadn't discovered it that place would be a backwards toilet
VICE has been on an insanely consistent curve of failure and extreme bias. Unfortunately, they lost their trust from a gigantic majority of the public. Maybe one day they can actually do something even remotely similar to this news piece again. But it’s not likely. They have failed.
I've been seeing these types of comments for a decade now, when will it stop?
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"they're not civilized like us" after creating one of the most horrific disasters in human history.
*nailed it*
The definition of irony.....
The bomb? It is sad but the war had to end
@@stephenprysock391 This was savage testing AFTER WWII !
This "they're not civilized like us" statement is true. Pacific islanders are not perfect, but for sure they are not taking uncivilized pride in pointless torture. Unfortunately, we (or our descendants) are going to pay ten times, this horrifying crime, in our own flesh.
My grandfather was one of the testers for this; he was a diver who would observe the underwater conditions directly after the bombs were detonated.
He died at 56 years old from cancer caused by the high levels of radiation.
@@tsnap6446 did your family prove that and get compensation? If he wasn't a smoker, there's a good chance you'd get compensation.
Like how many thousands of others? I'm so sorry for you and your grandfather. The US Gov't is evil~
I'm sorry about your grandfather, that's horrible.
@V3RTIGO222 they never pursued anything but I do know my grandma had some sort of substantial pension for the remainder of her life. I mean, it was the military and they really had no idea what the severity of the fallout damage would be for people in its proximity.
Yea, they didnt really understand radiation near as we do now, Back then. Even now we hardly know half of it, If that. I don't understand how someone who understands and was schooled on nuclear science, could make this stuff.
This was both an environmental crime and a crime against humanity.
I completely agree
And not to contradict you, an environmental crime is a crime against humanity
Good Ole USA lol
Get over yourself
If America hadn't discovered it that place would be a backwards toilet
"A baby born with no arms, and no legs... and no head." Literally watched those few seconds about 20 times. The way she nonchalantly threw that in there made me audibly say WHAT in a quiet room full of people. It's just insane to hear that.
This is sad. Atomic and nuclear stuff is very bad for humanity and the planet. Even power plants are dangerous let alone bombs.
Same reaction here, they also said the skin was translucent and could see all the organs inside?
@@custommusic2433 I was so focused on the child born without limbs that I didn't catch that... damn
so she gave birth to a stump or what?
You realize that woman that stated the findings, is an advocate for exposing these declassified documents right? She's not being insensitive about this subject.
Imagine how psychotic you have to be to drop nuclear bombs in the most beautiful place on earth… disgusting.
@blayworld We feel the same way about them building skyscrapers, giant resorts, golf Courses, Condos, Vacation Rentals & Airbnb's all over the Hawaiian Islands!
Rich people man. People would destroy something they love for profit.
imagine how psychotic it is to do nuclear testing in nevada, iinfecting the greater amounts of our own country with fallout and disease. all for war. spits
most beautiful is an opinion, personally i think its ugly
White mans world 💣 💴 ☠️
So glad you give voice to the poor victims of this atrocity
I bet 90% of Americans have no idea who these poor people are~
Yeah I didn't know they people existed til this video. I literally knew Marshall islands were part of the U.S. I thought they spoke English though itbdoesnt even sound spanish
Marshallese people majority of them ive seen are in California and the older folks have major health defects now I see why smfh
@@deneseiBwhy should we 😂
@@fadedvzx9053 because you victimized them
My father in law served in the army in the 70s, he was sent to clean up the islands, no ppe, no clean drinking water etc, a lot of people that served over there are no longer alive, died horrible painful deaths. The government recognizes him as an atomic veteran after years of trying to get justice, no compensation. I also feel for the people who are native to the Marshall Islands they didn’t deserve that
What was his lifespan?
@@Ryan-qr8yl he’s still alive and kicking he’s a good man, he went on to be a paramedic and firefighter, but him and his wife (my mother in law) tried to have a child for yrs, my fiancé was a miracle baby and has had no major issues thank god, but he could tell you some stories. Government lied to these young poor men living up north in the 70s saying hey do you wanna go to an island paradise? Not knowing that they were going to be picking up nuclear war materials and drinking contaminated water, fishing in that water eating the fish.
I was there 1978/79 tdy
From 1st engineer Bn
Fort Riley Kansas.
My dad died of leukemia and my mom fought autoimmune diseases most of her life, both likely attributable to being downwinders in the southwest. My mom told me about how they could see the yellow clouds of atomic fallout blown into the valley after a test in Nevada. The fallout clouds would centralize in the canyons and foothills along Utah's Wasatch Front. Rates for Thyroid cancer and other fallout-related diseases is extremely high for the people who grew up there during the 50s, 60s, 70s.
I feel for the Marshallese people. The US government committed these acts against so many people, and they knew almost the entire time what the outcome would be.
I'm very ashamed of my government. It's such a tragedy that these people in the Marshall Islands are so ignored and left to suffer with so little. They did absolutely nothing to deserve having to live and die this way.
[For honest truths, pls read the informative and insightful, multi-page comment by 'Mister Lianghui' at, "The Coming War on China": ruclips.net/video/V42KtSeo3uI/видео.htmlsi=gaElCf8Iekxh8yiB].. The fact that they don't even have running water or electricity is bad enough, but these poor people don't even have medical care that could greatly ease some of their pain and suffering. 😔🤷
I live in a town in Oklahoma where a lot of the Marshall islanders moved to and it’s sad knowing what was done to their homeland. I’m glad it’s being spoken about.
Why they move there
For foodstamps cause there lazy
Are you also so sad about the atrocities that actually happened in Oklahoma???
@@freedomisfromtruthcause their home was nuked
Sounds like Enid
This is a disgrace. Treating people like lab rats.
There's many examples of this. Like the intentional injecting of syphyllis into people of African descent to see what happens. They were completely unaware. So, as much as the nazis are to be loathed for their actions in WWII, the USA has their share of crimes against humanity to answer for.
Get over yourself
If America hadn't discovered it that place would be a backwards toilet
@@dfdf-rj8jr Says Mr. Twerpface with dog sh&t on his kitchen table.
And Bill Gates continues the legacy
I spent a week on Majuro last year, and had the opportunity to hear a presentation from the nuclear commission about the history of all of this. It’s one of the most somber, heart breaking things I’ve ever heard. The Marshallese people deserve better.
Sure ya did
In 1998 I asked the DOD at a city council meeting in Needles, ‘why were sending their nuclear waste trucks the long way through Needles instead of Vegas’ and they said there were less people with money. so they were more expendable. Then I ask why they wouldn’t use the caste trucks that are less likely to leak. They didn’t answer. It was money.
They were trying to put a low level “cat litter” nuclear dump in endangered species habitat over an aquifer. Genius. Failed because of protests and lawsuits.
They were trying to put a low level “cat litter” nuke dump on a fault line next the the Colorado river on the Mexico border. Genius. 🤞failed because of protest and lawsuits.
They succeeded in opening a nuke dump where they put steel drums of transuranic and high level waste in rooms carved out of salt deposits. There isn’t a language that has lasted long enough to warn people in the future not to dig there. It will be ☢️ for tens of thousands of years. Just like the bikini atoll. Not to mention steel +🧂+ Oxygen = rust. Genius
@@killamindedmusic4220😂 ikr?! I smell bullshit
@@mr.e-kh9bq I'm watching the video of him in the Marshall Islands from 1 year ago right now. It's on his channel.
Is there even any scientific evidence of external harms?
Ahh yes ship it thousands of miles to a concrete crater right next to a thriving ocean ecosystem. Let's NOT burry it in the middle of the desert in Nevada
@@2jsanc681 That was the site of a nuclear explosion, the islands were a testing ground... all that life around it seemingly doing just fine, somehow, all these years later.
Thriving ocean? These people can't even eat the fish! The ocean is dying thanks to heat and the millions of metal barrels they dropped out by the Farallon Islands, in old abandoned salt mines in Germany, and god-only-knows where else. That sh!t's all over the World, now our great-great-great-great-great grandchildren gotta deal with it... if humans are still alive by then~
@@V3RTIGO222 so apparently you didn't watch the video
@@2jsanc681 I did, the US buried 'contaminated soil' in the crater from the explosion under the concrete...
@@2jsanc681 "In 1982, a US government task force raised concern about a probable breach if a severe typhoon were to hit the island.[6] In 2013, a report by the US Department of Energy[7] found that the concrete dome had weathered with minor cracking of the structure.[8]
However, the soil around the dome was found to be more contaminated than its contents, so a breach could not increase the radiation levels by any means. Because the cleaning operation in the 1970s only removed an estimated 0.8 percent of the total transuranic waste in the Enewetak atoll,[9]: 2 the soil and the lagoon water surrounding the structure now contain a higher level of radioactivity than the debris of the dome itself, so even in the event of a total collapse, the radiation dose delivered to the local resident population or marine environment should not change significantly.
Concern primarily lies in the rapid tidal response to the height of the water beneath the debris pile, with the potential for contamination of the groundwater supply with radionuclides. One particular concern is that, in order to save costs, the original plan to line the porous bottom crater with concrete was abandoned.[3] Since the bottom of the crater consists of permeable soil, there is seawater inside the dome.[3]
However, as the Department of Energy report stated, the released radionuclides will be very rapidly diluted and should not cause any elevated radioactive risk for the marine environment, compared to what is already experienced.[7] Leaking and breaching of the dome could however disperse plutonium, a radioactive element that is also a toxic heavy metal.[10][11]
An investigative report by the Los Angeles Times in November 2019 reignited fears of the dome cracking and releasing radioactive material into the soil and surrounding water.[1][12] The DOE was directed by Congress to assess the condition of the structure and develop a repair plan during the first half of 2020.[13] The report was published in June 2020.[9]
In June 2020, the US Department of Energy released a report stating that the dome is in no immediate danger of collapse or breach and that the radioactive material within is not expected to have any measurable adverse effect on the surrounding environment for the next twenty years."
Should have took a Geiger counter around the dome and the excavated soil, and everywhere else on the island to show the radiation level readings.
i was thinking the same , shame on usa
They're not wearing any protection walking around barefoot on top of the big scary leaky dome, so it's presumably low enough that they don't seem all that much concerned about it
@@DrSulikSquirrel Your reply sounds a lot like a Koch Industries/CATO institute shill. Most people who develop cancers and die from radiation poisoning, don't know that they have been poisoned until it is too late.
@@DrSulikSquirrel yeah i think the main issue is the waste leeching into the water and marine ecosystem which could quickly lead to bioaccumulation
The radiation on land would be negligible. The issue is the water.
My father was put on one of the islands after the natives were removed. He was an Air Force Weatherman. He was still radioactive when he returned home. The first born had birth defects he couldn’t survive. The government not only mistreated the Marshal Islanders but didn’t care about the vets as well. We fought the military thru the atomic veterans association but nothing ever came of it. He passed several years ago.
If America hadn't discovered it that place would be a backwards toilet
Adding insult to injury was finding out they shipped all the radioactive soil from the Nevada test sites and dumped them haphazardly in the lagoon, so they didnt just ruin the Marshall Islands with the nukes they tested there but brought their radioactive garbage from elsewhere and left it there
10:04 2.2billion were promised - and only 4million have been sent?????????????????? This is insane
Come on, man! What are you crying about? Lahainans got $700 per family! People in N. CA wildfires got diddly squat! We gotta feed Ukrainian soldiers first, and watch our secret bioweapons labs over there! Trillions aren't enough! We don't want Russia liberating Fauxi's next 'Disease X' virus, do we?
yet we toss billions like candy to ukraine...
@@user-mh4uv
that is untrue. We are sending mothballed old training aids and the companies that make them are being paid to replace them. So we are giving ourseles billions.
@@user-mh4uv how is this related ? Why should ukranians that are fighting for their country under foreign invasion pay the price for what was done in the marshall ?
There is budget enough to compensate the marshall people and to help ukraine. it just needs political will.
@@user-mh4uvthat’s cuz vegetable Joe is in bed with Ukraine and China.
When nuclear bombs are mentioned, we all think about Hiroshima and Japan but we must also remember the Marshall islands and their people that were nuclear testing sites to 62 nuclear bombs that were stronger than the ones dropped on Japan.
Edit: I understand there were also other nuclear test sites for other countries like USSR but in this case, USA nuked a foreign nation during occupation,
They weren't attacked, but they were forcibly moved away so the US could test the area... they destroyed a lot of life and land, but the remains of 'radiation' is minimal... even Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been rebuilt and repopulated.
You mean the natives who can no longer fish or grow food on their islands and are dying from cancers? Ya... nuclear power is the way to go, all right~
@@V3RTIGO222 Wow... seriously? They said absolutely NOTHING about anyone being attacked! Does ANYONE know how to read anymore?
@@deneseiB saying they are "stronger" than the ones dropped directly on people is a bad faith argument and a huge stretch of logic, buddy.
I'm all for compensation, but hydrogen bombs have been proven to be far less radioactive than the ones used during ww2... nobody in this documentary got out a Geiger counter, toxicology report, etc. which these days are all extremely cheap.
They even walked over bombed areas that weren't gated off because it totally makes sense to allow people to trespass onto radioactive land and have access to radioactive particulates and the capacity to build 'dirty bombs'.
Please, that's ridiculous.
@@deneseiB Saying that h-bombs are "stronger" despite giving off less radiation and clearly weren't dropped *directly on people* is a false equivalency and bad faith argument.
The Marshall Islands are so beautiful
The day the Americans discovered it should be considered a curse
As a Marshallese, we understand how this is a curse, but, we also know it should be a blessing. Because our country is small and doesn’t have a lot of natural resources, but because of compact of association, we are able to have the money to develop. But we shouldn’t forget how our own people have suffered. But God is with us.
If America hadn't discovered it that place would be a backwards toilet
The U.S. helped develop the entire area… I think you’re just anti-American. Get help!
The nuclear testing in Bikini Atoll was the inspiration for Bikini Bottom in SpongeBob SquarePants and the talking marine life a result of the radiation
My grandfather was at bikini atol building airports during operation crossroads and witnessed the baker explosion. He never wanted to talk about it and in the 70s developed colon cancer. He was awarded 100% veterans benefits and was also declared an atomic veteran. He passed in 2003.
My father was a lifer military physician. He retired as a captain after 30 years then took a job at UAB in Alabama doing health maintenance on islanders of the Kwagelein Atoll. He basically reported that the culture was utterly destroyed by the process of evacuating the atoll, exploding the bomb, then repopulating the atoll a short time later. Basically they were radiation guinea pigs. Each islander was given some manner of cash settlement, like ten grand, which they squandered over the course of a generation as their culture was unaccustomed to a cash economy, and in the process of blowing through the settlement money many of the survival techniques endemic to that culture for eons and ages were lost, as they were no longer practiced because everyone was "rich" and didn't have to fish and forage etc. Massive goiters were commonplace, as were other obvious signs of radiation poisoning. Life expectancy was greatly curtailed and birth defects were common. Then the money ran out and they were totally screwed. It was a criminal act, to be sure, but nobody prosecutes a big country like the USA, now do they?
How do you work in the military for 30 years and only retire as a Captain?
@@mjj3298 ??? Maybe you'd prefer chief petty officer? Not everyone makes admiral, you know?
@@JimSuperwhite43 Actually disregard my comment, I forgot that the Navy calls Captain what others would call a Colonel. My bad haha!
US government is the ultimate terrorist organization
If America hadn't discovered it that place would be a backwards toilet
If anyone is curious this was originally released May 2020
Someone in the embassy wanted to talk and got told no
US GOVERNMENT: Yeah!!! Let's give them "SPAM".
Vice was here in Marshall islands!!! i never thought in a million years vice would do a documentary here. Thank you btw for telling the world our sad history
US Government still mining Uranium near the Grand Canyon. Navajo nation and other native nation have spoke out against mining. So many People have been affected.
We tried to change things in the 60s & 70s - Woodstock, Alcatraz, etc. - but 90% of the population would rather watch get fat watching TV, or today it's blue-haired people dressed like cats dancing on TikTok. We're doomed~
American politicians divide tax-paying people to keep citizens ignorant of the American government's horrors.
@@MCNUGGETS2015 Instead of having nukes, we should send the navajo to fight instead. Good idea
@@deneseiBthats democracy baby
We have such a rich history with Native Americans. 🙄
I grew up in a small town in Johnson County Texas and in our community we had many Marshallese families which were the most humble and friendly people you could imagine. I was very young and didn't know the history of the Marshallese. In retrospect it makes sense because the government had not disclosed much information about the atrocities the US govt. had committed in their islands. It's incredibly sad and infuriating how so many lives were and continue to be affected by this. I hope there's some form of justice for this community.
I hope so too, but there won’t.
Disgusting what we Americans did to those people
If America hadn't discovered it that place would be a backwards toilet
This is where Bikini Bottom is based from SpongeBob
Yes
We made a mockery of bikini atoll and showed it to millions of children who had no idea of the underlying meaning.
I work at an educational facility in Hawaii and we have many students from the Marshall Islands ,just about every single one has health issues that they are dealing with,some are more serious than others.
We are a vile and nasty society
thats the US for you
With a frikn god complex!!!
leave
@@stephenford6132you think the U.S. is the only one to test nuclear weapons? 😂😂 Definitely don’t look up what happened in Russia with their nuclear and chemical weapon testing
we as in humans. tsar bomba. were not the only ones.
I've missed this kind of Vice news.
my culture , my people , my home 🇲🇭💙💙
My first home was Honolulu, my little brother was born there before Queen Lili was overthrown so Hawai'i could became a US State. On behalf of the f*cked-up Gov't, I am so sorry for your people~😥
💙🌊🐟🦈🏝🌺🏞🌋🌴🤙
Igniting nuclear bombs to test reveals the arrogant ignorance and disrespect of our Earth.
The scale of this crime is hard to wrap your head around.
Not only the US has this on its conscience, but also the French in French Polynesia.
And Algeria
Let's not forget all the dead Native Americans, Germans, Italians, Koreans, Vietnamese, the Middle East, Hiroshima... The US Gov't is disgusting. The list is endless and no one is ever held accountable~
Algeria was better off under french rule. @@fannylc3998
You think that's it ? There are double digits
I'm sure the government will raise your taxes to pay for this and by the sound of things you'll be a happy recipient.
My best friend an his family is from the Marshall island how sad is this they are the nicest family I could meet I’m 32 year of age I met him in the 2 grade
The United States conducted 67 nuclear and thermonuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958, including the first H-bomb test in 1952. The tests took place at seven sites on Bikini Atoll, in the air, underwater, and at sea, and had a combined explosive power of about 77 megatons of TNT. The U.S. military also forcibly displaced thousands of Marshallese people to make way for the testing and other military activities.
Aaaaand... how many Military personnel were killed watching those tests? How many islands were blown up that completely disappeared? How many are uninhabitable now? How many people died from or have cancer today? Who can't eat the fish from the sea, or grow their own food now? And people want nuclear power where the waste rods last who-knows how many thousands of years? Nothing like passing the buck~
If America hadn't discovered it that place would be a backwards toilet
It’s so infuriating because the American people do not agree with what the government has done to people all around the world especially stuff like this. ..smh
but they do
@@BP-iz2lt not all, far from. which makes it more infuriating when you dont. because regardless of your personal beliefs on the matter the attribution has been made with good reason
@@BP-iz2ltI don’t. I’m American. Any destruction of any kind is frowned upon by pretty much everyone with a brain, why would I not be afraid for the world to fight with horrific blasts? That’s absolutely terrifying so I don’t know why anyone from anywhere would agree with it.
@@MrJayArt welcome to democracy, you dont have to agree with everyone else but they still vote
If America hadn't discovered it that place would be a backwards toilet
What about the young American men who were lied to and are dying from this clean up ??
These were young men who cleaned up nuclear waste in rubber boots and bathing suits !!
I live near Springdale, Arkansas, here there are tons of Marshallese, hearing the stories from their elders hurts a lot & are still pushed away but thankfully other minority groups include them, much love to my Micronesian friends, from the Wixáaritari Nation 🦌♥️
If America hadn't discovered it that place would be a backwards toilet
What about Agent Orange in Vietnam war? Thousands of victims have been waiting for compensation despite that the war ended 50 years ago.
What about it? It's also horrible. It's not a contest.
Agent orange is child's play compared to a hydrogen bomb dropped 100 miles away
In Brazil last year, a farmer destroy almost 200 THOUSAND ACRES of forest using Agent Orange
Exactly, of which my dad died from & of which myself & my children suffer symptoms of! Where's our compensation?
@@theoriginaltroll388 No, it's not. Hydrogen bombs have less radiation than older atomic bombs which didn't actually give off much radiation to begin with... Guess how populated Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now?
Crimes against humanity
Yea sadly doesn't count if you are the most powerful super power. That's US...
How many people did this effect compared to the amount dying during the war it was intended to stop? Also, the consequences were worse than most scientists expected. It’s easy to look back now and say it was evil.
@@NothingNew777 They were evil and this is inexcusable. Operation Crossroads was a completely unnecessary test that was performed as a chest thumping exercise. Would you have liked it if they made all those tests right beside your house?
@@NothingNew777 it was, by definition, a crime against humanity. There was no legitimate justification for perpetrating it.
@@kennyegor7503 it was, by definition, not a crime against humanity otherwise the ICC would of prosecuted it. Keep spreading misinformation its what russian bots do best.
about 80% of the displaced marshallese people in the US live in my hometown Springdale, AR. i grew up with lots of them they are really nice people, i just always thought it was crazy how nobody from other places had really even heard of them but in Springdale everyone knows a Marshallese person and signs in businesses translate in spanish as well as Marshallese. They came to the area to work for Tyson foods and Walmart primarily from what i heard, thats what attracted so many of them.
I’m from Springdale arkansas and yeah you’re right they are nice people
that thing is a time bomb. imagine the radiation spreading when that thing fails.
it's failing now as we speak. I'm certain it's spewing radiation directly into the ocean...i certainly wouldn't ever walk on top of it....
Shame on you, US Gov.
Are you surprised?
I'd expect nothing less from the people who gave Nazi war criminals a free pass.
@@mariwatersflowersayyy2823 Those people should have been compensated years ago by the US Gov. I do think the Biden admin is not to blame.
hello didnt they kill the indians to even have a Gov, then killed Earth, then Killed Africans, then killed Each other in the Civil War. Whyte Ppl. THE USA
Definitely didn’t impact the climate in anyway
Another example of we the ppl say no and they the military do it anyway
The US gave itself a pass on this issue, they also gave Japan Unit 731 a pass so no one can "touch" Japan on this issue.
lmao would u rather they test it on our own land?? or become the weaker link in any war?? yeah. yes this sucks but our freedom rides on this destructive bs.
If America hadn't discovered it that place would be a backwards toilet
If the dome is cracking, why are you standing on top of it looking into cracks?!
Yeah I bet the dome is not meaningfully cracking. Is there any evidence of release from there?
Unbelievable. Shame on you US!
😂
Shame on our government.
@MrJayArt Nobody currently in "our" government has anything to do with this. I doubt any of you actually care at all, honestly. You'll forget about this video in the next week 😂
@BattleGraphic yes your government has everything to do with this.
If America hadn't discovered it that place would be a backwards toilet
I had a college professor that worked out here back in the 70’s for a private company stationed on the atolls with the military. He told us about how his buddy bought an ounce of weed and his mom shipped him increments every few weeks. We all asked “how’d you do that?” “It was the 70’s brother.”
He also told us he got absolutely blackout drunk with his friends one Friday on top of this concrete block. The next morning he didn’t have a hangover and that’s when he knew he had a problem and quit.
Michael Moster, if you somehow see this, I went back and got my degree. I’m doing okay. You are tied with another geography professor for my all time favorite instructors. But you win because you’re one of my all time favorite people.
US government
*sees paradise on earth
“Hey I have an idea…”
The french had that same idea for French Polynesia
not only US government , but all nuclear powers lmao
its democracy time!
If America hadn't discovered it that place would be a backwards toilet
The victims should sue for fallout damages and loss of property
They already did and succeeded
They did and are owed 2B dollars. The US has only paid 4m so far...
This is incredibly good reporting. Thank you for producing this and making others aware.
7:38 listening to this woman speak about her miscarriage… breaks my heart. What makes this even more crazy is that I’m from Arkansas where the US sent most , if not all, of the natural citizens of the Marshall Islands. Most still live here to this day…
My grandfather was in the navy at that time and apart of the atomic tests. I remember him telling me that they lied to the inhabitants to forcefully remove them from the islands and some of the islands are no longer there as they destroyed them. There gone, no longer on the map.
The birth place of sponge bob
i was literally thinking the same shi lmfao like even those videos of explosions in spongebob would be the nuclear tests in the water
😂😂😂😂....bro you'd do well in comedy
@@TravelChannelOneIt actually is supposed to be set in Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, he’s not wrong
67 NUKES …
And MY PEOPLE REMAIN STANDING !!! MICRONESIA !! Pacific Islanders !!!
Here in NW Arkansas there is a big population of Marshallese. They are quiet and stay to themselves. I knew the US used their islands for testing but this is the first documentary I’ve seen on it. I do believe they are intentionally settled in this particular area by the US government to fill the demand for poultry production processors. Last recent arrivals to the area have been Myanmar/Burmese citizens. They are very hardworking people.
the colonizer mindset that saw the islanders as more human than mice, but not human enough to care about, is pure evil.
The United States should be ashamed of themselves.
If America hadn't discovered it that place would be a backwards toilet
I am from the US. I am ashamed of what my country has done to the people of the Marshall Islands: generational damage. Let these people live where they would like and give them food, money, healthcare, all of it. They paid a price that was inflicted on them by bad, selfish US decisions.
Y’all eat fake food ur money is paper and ur healthcare is a joke
If America hadn't discovered it that place would be a backwards toilet
"To end all wars"
Sadly, humankind would need to be extinct before that could ever happen.
…
and we are closer to reach that goal then ever since cuba missiles.
@@moos5221 Which turned out to be fake…
@@boogieheads what are you talking about
@@boogieheads :DDD everything is fake for you commies lmao, satelite probably showed fake images too haha
Mankind should never tamper with things they don't understand until they have full grasp of understanding and ability to contain the aftermath.
So basically never make any advancements? We would still be in the bronze age if we did that.
This is one of the many reasons that nations and people don't and shouldn't trust us.
If America hadn't discovered it that place would be a backwards toilet
Condolences to New Mexico and Nevada Native Families
My poor islands 😡
Wait what about states like Nevada- 928 nuclear tests
Right? And they wonder why nothing grows out there... just like Hanford Nuke Site in WA State is barren for miles, fish in the Columbia River with open sores, frogs with six legs and five eyes. Ya... more nuclear power please~
@@deneseiBdisgusting and extremely disturbing
@@deneseiB It's a desert, nothing grows there anyway. Nature doesn't really care about radiation, just look at the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
The Pacific NW is not a desert @@PistonAvatarGuy, and Chernobyl is creating blue dogs. But nobody notices because no one can live there because of all the RADIATION! Nature will ultimately fix herself if humans can keep their stinking fingers out of the toxic chemicals long enough~
@@deneseiB”wondering why nothing grows out” 😂 it’s a DESERT
I recommend the Nuclear Museum Website where they talk about the 67 tests they did there.
No compensation worth this evil....why didn't them evacuate civilians before the test.
I was in job corps with a bunch of Marshall islanders. Still remember Wesley, obet, London Beijing, my roommate was Sandy(andi-ay), arliss. In Stead NV.
Didn't you guys release this like, years ago? I specifically remember watching this on your channel at least 4-5 years ago. Not complaining as the issue deserves attention, but why delete old videos just upload them again (besides money).
lol vice is literally bankrupt now. who knows how much longer they’ll last
Copyright or ownership issues. Then they reupload modified versions.
That must be the case here.
Other reasons for reuploading are profit related. (Like gain lots of subscriptions on a new second channel.)
Fun fact south africa was the first country in the world to get rid of all its nuclear arms and havent had any since
So why are they still a s*** hole
Vice droppijg thier first banger in years i just wanna give that grandmother a hug you can see the pain in her eyes
I've been lucky enough to get to know more than a couple Marshallese, and they have all been exceptional in their kindness and friendliness. It sucks we did this to their islands. Destroying ecosystems and lives, just to test out how effectively you can destroy more ecosystems and lives. They talk about this stuff. They do not like it.
When you see stuff like this it just drives home that more the importance of never letting an atomic war breakout and never letting atomic bombs be used again. The bombs we have now are so much more powerful than what was used in WW2, it's too much power.
Stronger nukes are good. It's better to have more explosive force than to have a weak nuke that leaves alot of radioactive waste behind.
Might want to try to get that message across to Iran
Makes you wonder what happens if Russia or the US destabilizes in the future.
"never letting atomic bombs be used again" As offensive weapons of war, sure. As defensive weapons to protect Earth from potentially devastating asteroid strikes, however, there is plenty of merit.
They tested nuclear weapons on humans?
yes. the UK did the same on their own soldiers.
And the French did that to Polynesians. Sick world.
Did they quit teaching History in school? Nevada testing grounds? Hiroshima/Nagasaki? Operation Seaspray in San Francisco? They do atmospheric, underwater, and space tests, which they're not supposed to do because radioactive fallout flies all around the planet, but who cares, right? You probly don't know about the CIA's MK-Ultra LSD mind control experiments performed on unwitting Americans in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s 80s, 90s, and 2000s, either... but they don't do that stuff anymore, so you're okay~
Of course, they wanted to know what happens.
The US (wypipo) tested syphilis on black people over a 30-year span. I'm not surprised at all. Just know time is almost up for their descendants.
This shi so sad… smh the world is rlly a fucked up place
You mean America
@@ChefBogan facts 💯
@@ChefBogan you think america is alone in this? foolish
@@ChefBogannever picked up a history book I guess
America ain’t been around that long
@@ChefBogan commie bot, bad bad USA, uuuuuuuuu, go cry.
Crazy no one ever talked about this thank you vice !
People were relocated for the testing. Not a single penny was spent for compensation. This is so sad.
She is correct - the US gov’t does not see people as humans
very sad. we are not taught this in schools. this is the first i’ve heard of this
Wow. How evil we are, so evil. I'm sick.
these are people who witnessed WW2. evil was the norm back then.
@@rongike So what... they're used to it? It doesn't matter? How nonchalantly you dismiss people whose lives were ruined, who died, or are suffering from cancer, who can't even eat fish from the sea, or grow their own food anymore thanks to radiation provided by the US GOVERNMENT. No wonder this World is so f*cked up~
You're not really sick. Stop.
@@Cavscout101 every human in this world is deeply traumatized.
"we", i didnt do a thing, im not at fault for this. the government is at fault, congress is. not us.
I was just researching this a few months ago. Very rewarding and entertaining video.
The Marshall Islands people should never have had this happen to them. On behalf of my country, I am truly sorry for the actions of my government. I know that is no consolation, but it's all I've got right now.
It truly sickens me that this happened and we MUST do better.
I visited here a few years back. great evil is what it is!!!
2:36 If nuclear waste could be shipped from Nevada to the Marshall islands, then it can also be shipped back. The US is a large country, with plenty of space, facilities and money to dispose of this waste properly. In all likelihood much of the marshall islands will soon be underwater from sea level rises this century, the waste needs to be moved somewhere permanent.
You and what navy?
how old is this video? they said it was going to be back up for negotiation in 2023... it's 2024?
may 2020 its in the description
on Johnston atoll, they didnt even bother building a dome, they just went to the sea on boats and dumped the plutonium overboard.
This is the vice I miss. Under the radar stories that Vice swoops up and provides a voice to those not able to defend themselves.
A whole 18 inches, my drive way has more prep than this allege nuclear waste containment
Your driveway is not 18 inches thick you absolute muppet, nice lie though
Disgusting, and the whole world keeps silence on the Marshall Islander rights. Where is the Human Rights activist? Where is the UN? Did they protest as much they protest for Ukrainians? Palestinians?
The only country that can do atrocities without being held responsible 😵💫
What was the reason why this got released in 2024 when the reporting was done pre 2023? Good to know. Thank you.
Read the description.
@@bensanders5681👍
My father fought the Japanese in the Marshalls on Roi-Namur and my uncle, who was in the navy, was at the post war Bikini bomb test.
Crimes against humanity. An American tradition.
A human tradition.
@@josephgardner83 We are talking about US war crimes 🤡
@@josephgardner83 always an uneducated American in the comments. your country has perfected the art
they should have done the test in California
😂😂😂😂
Usa is no better than russia
My country and their lack of accountability makes me disgusted. Even though this was decades before my parents were even born , we need to bring awareness to the people of the islands and their descendants. They deserve better.
This needs to be brought to the worlds attention more !!!!
Sad to see but happy your reporting!
6:03 "And if we run out we go swim out there and catch our fish, even though they are poisoned and they are not good for our health."
THAT FISH LOOKED CRAZY.
That's so fucking sad though, I swear the more I learn about the past of what our government has done, the more pissed off I get as an american, and I wanna do something about it.