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Hog · 03-05-2014

Not the best of anniversaries, and I was leaning towards talking of this in another thread, but its extremly off topic so here it is.

Speaking of year past, March 1st commemorated the 60 year anniversary of the 15 megaton blunder thermonuclear test on the Bikini Atoll. It was supposed to be a 5-7 megaton yeild test, but the excess production of both Lithium-6 and Lithium-7 excessively fueled the fusion reactions causing an over yield to 15 megatons. The explosion was extremely "dirty" local inhabitants were evacuated 3 days later, then were re introduced a couple years later, only to leave again after birth defects and sickness were discovered. The area was evacuated again, people havent gone back yet. 60 years later. 23 tests were done in this area.

Map showing points (X) where contaminated fish were caught or where the sea was found to be excessively radioactive. B=original "danger zone" around Bikini announced by the U.S. government. W="danger zone" extended later. xF=position of the Lucky Dragon fishing boat. NE, EC, and SE are equatorial currents.

Sixteen crew members of the USS Bairoko recieved beta radiation burns and the eentire crew had elevated long term cancer rates.

Castle Bravo test

"Ninety minutes after the detonation, 23 crew members of the Japanese fishing boat the Daigo Fukuryū Maru were contaminated by the snow-like irradiated debris and ash. They had no idea what the explosion they'd seen meant nor any inkling of the deadly debris raining down on them. But they all soon became ill with the affects of acute radiation poisoning. One fisherman died shortly after the ship reached shore. Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and architect of the Marshall Island tests, upon learning of the death of the fisherman, commented, “It’s unreasonable to make such a big deal over the death of a fisherman.” Eleven of the crewmen eventually died of radiation-related illnesses."

The bolded comment is quite a cold and harsh statement, at least the
ather of the Fission bomb Robert Oppenheimer, knew that that they had let the genie out of the bottle, he actively tried to not develop the Hydrogen-Fusion bomb.

We all wonder why Cancer rates are off scale high.
This video has a map of the Earth and shows every single nuke test over the years, man does the cold war

This video shows every single nuclear detonation that has occured on Earth from 1945 to 1998. Things really heat up in 1957 then again in 1963.
Then at 12:10 the video displays EACH countries tests for that country alone.
Chilling video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4UMi5YNYfQ

I was surpised how many United Kingdom tests were conducted in the continguous United States.

03-05-2014	#1
Hog Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Woodstock, Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,271	March,1st 2014 60th anniversary of the Castle Bravo H-bomb disaster Not the best of anniversaries, and I was leaning towards talking of this in another thread, but its extremly off topic so here it is. Speaking of year past, March 1st commemorated the 60 year anniversary of the 15 megaton blunder thermonuclear test on the Bikini Atoll. It was supposed to be a 5-7 megaton yeild test, but the excess production of both Lithium-6 and Lithium-7 excessively fueled the fusion reactions causing an over yield to 15 megatons. The explosion was extremely "dirty" local inhabitants were evacuated 3 days later, then were re introduced a couple years later, only to leave again after birth defects and sickness were discovered. The area was evacuated again, people havent gone back yet. 60 years later. 23 tests were done in this area. Map showing points (X) where contaminated fish were caught or where the sea was found to be excessively radioactive. B=original "danger zone" around Bikini announced by the U.S. government. W="danger zone" extended later. xF=position of the Lucky Dragon fishing boat. NE, EC, and SE are equatorial currents. Sixteen crew members of the USS Bairoko recieved beta radiation burns and the eentire crew had elevated long term cancer rates. Castle Bravo test "Ninety minutes after the detonation, 23 crew members of the Japanese fishing boat the Daigo Fukuryū Maru were contaminated by the snow-like irradiated debris and ash. They had no idea what the explosion they'd seen meant nor any inkling of the deadly debris raining down on them. But they all soon became ill with the affects of acute radiation poisoning. One fisherman died shortly after the ship reached shore. Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and architect of the Marshall Island tests, upon learning of the death of the fisherman, commented, “It’s unreasonable to make such a big deal over the death of a fisherman.” Eleven of the crewmen eventually died of radiation-related illnesses." The bolded comment is quite a cold and harsh statement, at least the ather of the Fission bomb Robert Oppenheimer, knew that that they had let the genie out of the bottle, he actively tried to not develop the Hydrogen-Fusion bomb. We all wonder why Cancer rates are off scale high. This video has a map of the Earth and shows every single nuke test over the years, man does the cold war This video shows every single nuclear detonation that has occured on Earth from 1945 to 1998. Things really heat up in 1957 then again in 1963. Then at 12:10 the video displays EACH countries tests for that country alone. Chilling video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4UMi5YNYfQ I was surpised how many United Kingdom tests were conducted in the continguous United States. Last edited by Hog; 03-05-2014 at 12:21 PM.