My grandfather was a witness to one of the tests while he was stationed on the USS Deliver. He never talked about it. We only found out when going through his military documents after he was diagnosed with dementia.
I learned about the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests. But it was never mentioned that there were people living nearby. I thought that area was complete empty. What a shame destroying peoples homeland for such a weapon.
Ah yes, Bikini Atoll. Home of the craziest atomic weapons test in history and the home of SpongeBob SquarePants and the residents of Bikini Bottom. (It’s a true fact, the creators confirmed it! Look it up!)
Who lives in a wasteland under the sea, Glowing and radioactive was he! If nautical sadness be something ye wish, Just look over there at that three eye’d fish!
One major health issue facing many of the displaced Marshallese that needs mentioning is the high rates of diabetes caused by the food that has been provided by the US as part of reparations. The food that is provided is similar to what has traditionally been found on native reservations, mostly flour, lard, etc. and has led to record levels of diabetes in this displaced community. Equally the largest of the atoll's making up the Marshall islands, kwajalein, is home to a massive US base that takes up the majority of land available to the Marshallese.
i for one am glad that the nuclear test were carried out. not only by the US but by the soviet union, UK and France. it is my firm belief that these test gave those in power undisputable, undeniable and complete clarity as to the effects and devastation the use of such weapons pose. no nation harboring nuclear weapons can claim ignorance as to the consequences of their use. the test definitively show that nuclear weapons destroy the very thing you would want to capture, have long lasting effects that don't just effect the immediate area and cause suffering above and beyond that would would be considered inhuman. I further believe these test have delayed if not prevented world war 3 as no one wanted to be the one to end life on the planet. i can only hope humanity be wise enough to not use these monstrous weapons.
SIMON! 😧 My Man! Ya gotta take care of that throat! Just the thought of something happening to my favourite presenter! (That's right, look it up...) Yikes!
It is an odd choice, Ngl. Sometimes it’s good, but not sure what it adds here. Maybe something like news channels do where there is a camera at a different angle and he turns his upper body to face it periodically or at section changes.
Not into fact boi side head. Just goes against all fact work the boi does. Unless it was a deep cut sale for the head shaving devices or something, i would get it... like his shoes, socks, or underwear sale pitches. But side head of fact boi is just not the eye contact I'm into or used to.
Most of the radioactive contamination was left by the smaller atomic tests. The large hydrogen bomb tests had far less radioactive contamination due to their higher yields. As a result the higher yeilds explosions consumed a higher percentage of their fissionable materials.
My grandpa was there for Operation Crossroads in 1946, drafted into the Navy when he turned 18 right at the end of the war. You really don’t have to use ai images, there are actually lots of real pictures, you know, with historical value.
You could also not be a snowflake over AI images to ya know, the genie is OUT of the bottle and no amount of whining from people like you are gonna change the fact that people WILL USE AI art if they want to GET OVER IT.
Guess we'll just be selective with our memory and totally forget that both german and japanese ALSO did horrible things to the locals as well right. Nah its all about the US being big and bad and oppressive right, here's an idea how about grow the fuck up and actually learn how the world works cause news flash there are NO good sides in a war PERIOD, there is only victory or defeat thats how it goes.
Old stuff you already did a similar video about this and the most dangerous Islands since it has the done where it was dump "all" radioactive stuff and that is leaking, etc
The 1988 tribunal overplayed their hand. They demanded an amount in excess of $1 million per inhabitant. This would have nearly doubled the amount that the US has paid to the Marshallese in "healthcare and resettlement" costs.
How about site were russia tested their szar bomba, largest nuclear bomb ever made. I have read that russia made No Attempt at all to evacuate people living there...
As devastating as the bombs are i must admit that its something majestic about the mushroom clouds. Sounds like you need a break. Take care of your voice, Simon.
Oh you can live there, if you ware protective clothing and don’t eat ANYTHING from the immediate area and your genetics are not prone to genetic mutation.
Wait, it's over already? Man, I was spoiled by those 40-plus minute deep dives when this channel started. This feels shallow and incomplete by comparison.
bikini could have been taken with a sub and battleship.. americans should never have died when a simple blockade would sufficed.. but since ships were expensive & lives are cheap, even America solves its issues with meat wave tactics..
You do realize that would have caused fallout to rain down on the entire eastern seaboard and most of everything east of the Rockies, right? This is why Reddit brained goons don't make the big brain decisions.
@jaytaylor629 no, I won't lighten up. Every halfwit on the internet talks shit about Florida, when there are far more fucked up states. California? Yeah, where to start? Wisconsin? Has produced more serial killers than any other state? And how dare you make jokes about Florida, when fucking Ohio exists?
"Moreover an independent international tribunal... order the US..." The United States, being a sovereign nation, takes orders from no one. Neither should any other sovereign nation take orders from others. Treaties are mutual agreements, "orders" are not.
Been watching these channels for years, but I grow tired of the seething millennial writers sitting at their keyboards whining about what nations had to do 75 years ago to fight and keeps the freedom you and your ancestors have had for the past 75 years. Ya, it was a biotcha.... but war is so.
U KNOW WE ARE THE CRAZY…. i’m sure you have to convince someone to be able to debate one of these. That’s pretty crazy.,… knowing what a nuclear bomb does and if capability but keep on doing it expecting for better results. That’s pretty crazy….. what we know what radiation does and tell group of people it’s OK to live here which used to be your home or we upgraded it by everything glow in dark that’s pretty crazy too..
Bob Hope put it best. "After WW2, we found the one place that hadn't been touched by the war, and we blew it out of the water."
My grandfather was a witness to one of the tests while he was stationed on the USS Deliver. He never talked about it. We only found out when going through his military documents after he was diagnosed with dementia.
Surely the people writing the US history books accidentally forgot to include that part 😅
Hey Mr Whistler. You do.a fantastic job on all 1,239 of your channels..hello from Washington DC
It’s now 1,241! 😂
I learned about the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests. But it was never mentioned that there were people living nearby. I thought that area was complete empty. What a shame destroying peoples homeland for such a weapon.
Ah yes, Bikini Atoll. Home of the craziest atomic weapons test in history and the home of SpongeBob SquarePants and the residents of Bikini Bottom. (It’s a true fact, the creators confirmed it! Look it up!)
Was the name -bikini bottom too ambiguous?
LoL
@ true, but many on the internet have argued it was a joke and the creators didn’t plan on the atoll being the setting. But they were wrong
SpongeBob lore facts!!!
Yeah that idea is the radiation created him
@ good old radioactivity, bringing certain death and genetic mutations to every living organism it comes across.
Who lives in a wasteland under the sea,
Glowing and radioactive was he!
If nautical sadness be something ye wish,
Just look over there at that three eye’d fish!
SpongeBobs race had evolved long before the atomic bombs. But that's just a theory
One major health issue facing many of the displaced Marshallese that needs mentioning is the high rates of diabetes caused by the food that has been provided by the US as part of reparations. The food that is provided is similar to what has traditionally been found on native reservations, mostly flour, lard, etc. and has led to record levels of diabetes in this displaced community.
Equally the largest of the atoll's making up the Marshall islands, kwajalein, is home to a massive US base that takes up the majority of land available to the Marshallese.
i for one am glad that the nuclear test were carried out. not only by the US but by the soviet union, UK and France. it is my firm belief that these test gave those in power undisputable, undeniable and complete clarity as to the effects and devastation the use of such weapons pose. no nation harboring nuclear weapons can claim ignorance as to the consequences of their use. the test definitively show that nuclear weapons destroy the very thing you would want to capture, have long lasting effects that don't just effect the immediate area and cause suffering above and beyond that would would be considered inhuman. I further believe these test have delayed if not prevented world war 3 as no one wanted to be the one to end life on the planet. i can only hope humanity be wise enough to not use these monstrous weapons.
Honestly my favorite Simon channel. But I do love them all.
But nobody, not even Simon himself knows how many channels he has.
SIMON! 😧 My Man! Ya gotta take care of that throat!
Just the thought of something happening to my favourite presenter! (That's right, look it up...)
Yikes!
Its crazy to see when you go to the northern part of the Enewetak Atoll and see the giant craters still very much visible
Great video, but I miss the longer Places videos. I like the deep dives into a place’s history.
smh... Not one mention of Bikini Bottom in the video... Glad I checked the comments!!😂🤣🍍
Side profile Simon Wistler?
Why the profile view? Doesn't make sense!
It is an odd choice, Ngl. Sometimes it’s good, but not sure what it adds here. Maybe something like news channels do where there is a camera at a different angle and he turns his upper body to face it periodically or at section changes.
@@shinkicker404 Heck, I watch Simon enough that I'll take a little odd variety here & there...
Don't want too much of a good/same thing!
Not into fact boi side head. Just goes against all fact work the boi does. Unless it was a deep cut sale for the head shaving devices or something, i would get it... like his shoes, socks, or underwear sale pitches. But side head of fact boi is just not the eye contact I'm into or used to.
Spongebob's hood!
Waiting for a Decoding the Unknown about the SpongeBob conspiracy.
Someone gets the lore of SpongeBob... 😂
Most of the radioactive contamination was left by the smaller atomic tests. The large hydrogen bomb tests had far less radioactive contamination due to their higher yields. As a result the higher yeilds explosions consumed a higher percentage of their fissionable materials.
3:26 that's a wartime map showing anchoring spots for ships
The intro gives you an idea about how big the pacific ocean is, right now.
6:30 Another reason the spongebob writers used this shot in several spongebob episodes. A nod to Bikini Atoll and Bikini Bottom being the same place
New York, Nevada Pennsylvania, Prinz Eugen survived both Able and Baker. IJN Nagato survived able.
Godzilla's birthplace.
🔥
@oenhammonds3739 🦖🔥🧟
I live there. Its so nice and peaceful and i never need a flashlight
How crazy..I just researched the atols..it's wild..there are many atols
My grandpa was there for Operation Crossroads in 1946, drafted into the Navy when he turned 18 right at the end of the war. You really don’t have to use ai images, there are actually lots of real pictures, you know, with historical value.
You could also not be a snowflake over AI images to ya know, the genie is OUT of the bottle and no amount of whining from people like you are gonna change the fact that people WILL USE AI art if they want to GET OVER IT.
How many different channels does this guy have? I feel like I keep getting information from him everywhere lmao
He has 10 listed, counting this one
Welcome to the Whistlerverse.
@@ShinHakumen that's actually a really good one - Whistlerverse.
Absolutely horrible what the American government did to the islanders!
Guess we'll just be selective with our memory and totally forget that both german and japanese ALSO did horrible things to the locals as well right. Nah its all about the US being big and bad and oppressive right, here's an idea how about grow the fuck up and actually learn how the world works cause news flash there are NO good sides in a war PERIOD, there is only victory or defeat thats how it goes.
It's the United States. They have ZERO regard for other countries' people.
We don't need war to be the worst...
What a nasty piece of history.
But no one is get to be responsable for all the cancer in the world we live in today
Sadly, the US govt has dealt with the Marshallese in much the same fashion as American Indians.
Old stuff you already did a similar video about this and the most dangerous Islands since it has the done where it was dump "all" radioactive stuff and that is leaking, etc
Actually Crossroad Charlie test was cancelled due to the high radioactive contamination from test Baker.
Simon needs to get sponsored by some lozenges or throat spray stat. Take care of that throat, Fact Boy!
SpongeBob is a really really dark and sad cartoon, a story about deformed and mutated animals trying to survive.
I wonder if we can get Drump to visit?
For the love of god, flip that midrange switch on the SM7. Way too muffled as is.
The 1988 tribunal overplayed their hand. They demanded an amount in excess of $1 million per inhabitant. This would have nearly doubled the amount that the US has paid to the Marshallese in "healthcare and resettlement" costs.
New mic who dis?
WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA!
I do, housing rates have gone insane
Simon sounds rough. I REALLY hate the profile shots. Just use more graphics or maps.
"Why'd the people have to go?
Cuz the US set a bomb to explode.
They took paradise,
And blew it f-cking up!"
-Sung to the tune of 'Big Yellow Taxi'
Swear it sounded like you said “bikini asshole” in the beginning of the video 😂
Yeah you could live there but for how well and how long as another matter.
I recommend Halls or tea lol
How about site were russia tested their szar bomba, largest nuclear bomb ever made.
I have read that russia made No Attempt at all to evacuate people living there...
As devastating as the bombs are i must admit that its something majestic about the mushroom clouds. Sounds like you need a break. Take care of your voice, Simon.
Oh you can live there, if you ware protective clothing and don’t eat ANYTHING from the immediate area and your genetics are not prone to genetic mutation.
Wait, it's over already? Man, I was spoiled by those 40-plus minute deep dives when this channel started. This feels shallow and incomplete by comparison.
15th like at 4 mins, hell yae, and first comment
Birth place of Godzilla.
bikini could have been taken with a sub and battleship..
americans should never have died when a simple blockade would sufficed..
but since ships were expensive & lives are cheap, even America solves its issues with meat wave tactics..
You gotta love humans...not!
♫ Whoooooo lives in a pineapp...... did the ocean just boil?
wth simon? i thought you was a throat goat smh
The graphics of Simon's face and his swole biceps are amazing. You've taken it to a new level.
USA should have done their testing in Florida.
You do realize that would have caused fallout to rain down on the entire eastern seaboard and most of everything east of the Rockies, right? This is why Reddit brained goons don't make the big brain decisions.
@@SkunkApe407 Bro I'm joking, lighten up a little.
@jaytaylor629 no, I won't lighten up. Every halfwit on the internet talks shit about Florida, when there are far more fucked up states. California? Yeah, where to start? Wisconsin? Has produced more serial killers than any other state? And how dare you make jokes about Florida, when fucking Ohio exists?
Typical usa, not taking responsibility for their mess. Again.
Made no sense. Why didn't the Gov plant on the Island they were on 500+ miles away instead of Bikini?
Trump; visa free access you say? We’ll see about that!
TDR
@@MrGalactica75TDSS
Hmmmm I wonder if all the suns being created by America uk and Russia could have helped cause some global warming?
Amd France, N Korea, China, South Africa, Iran, India and Pakistan of course...
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Spung bob square pants
comment
Simon peering out of an old TV. That’s quite queer!
Once again, America does whatever they like. And Trump is going to make sure, the rich men do whatever they like. What sort of world do we live in?
Oh go away
lol, npc
In the words of Jim Carrey in Sonic 1 "NOBODY CARES!"
TDR
TDSS
No mention of SpongeBob?
You are now in leaving Bikini Bottom
"Moreover an independent international tribunal... order the US..." The United States, being a sovereign nation, takes orders from no one. Neither should any other sovereign nation take orders from others. Treaties are mutual agreements, "orders" are not.
The USA is happy to order other nations around though.
And this is how we got sponge bob. Lol
No ai…..unsubscribing
Been watching these channels for years, but I grow tired of the seething millennial writers sitting at their keyboards whining about what nations had to do 75 years ago to fight and keeps the freedom you and your ancestors have had for the past 75 years. Ya, it was a biotcha.... but war is so.
U KNOW WE ARE THE CRAZY…. i’m sure you have to convince someone to be able to debate one of these. That’s pretty crazy.,… knowing what a nuclear bomb does and if capability but keep on doing it expecting for better results. That’s pretty crazy….. what we know what radiation does and tell group of people it’s OK to live here which used to be your home or we upgraded it by everything glow in dark that’s pretty crazy too..