The reason why the bomb was more power powerful is that...lithium 5 and lithium 6...one was though to inert but it just made it more powerful by mistake...!
@@steveshoemaker6347 That was a worst shameful act by US as it took thousands of Japanese lives and leaving even more handicapped and with life threatening cancerous disease. And it is even more shameful as how the US citizens supported and celebrated this heinous crimes done by their country and taking it as pride of humankind. Even now at present nothing has changed much as what the US is doing in Gaza supporting the Zionist regime of Israel is also no different from what it had done with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I’m 49 and I’m just now learning about the scope of what we’ve done. Nothing could convince me that this is ok and I’m certainly not anti military. I was in the Army myself, I used to believe we were morally better than this. I was obviously wrong.
This is not that simple. The first bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki stopped the Japanese emperor. That was important, it really saved many lives, even though many died. Those are horrible dilemma's, but in the end, you can agree, maybe this was better. But the Cold War, and today the Second Cold War, do you have any idea how many nuclear weopons have been tested? There were THOUSANDS of atomic explosions. And there are thousands of missiles and bombs and torpedo's and God knows what. If only one is used, in angry, by accident, what will happen? Will you survive? Will I survive? I tell you, those politicians are crazy. I hope the generals are wise. Why do we need these poisonous weapons? When too many angry guys push the button, the entire world can die. Homo sapiens is not sapiens, we are homo destructivus. People can kill the world. And it will surprise you, how easy it is, to kill all human beings. Oops, nuclear winter. Nuclear clouds in the sky will obscure the sun. Oops, no crops anymore. Oops. End of our story. Never thought about that?! No, you believe everything the governments tell you. They do not tell you this. Nuclear winter is a real problem. And it can be your last.
How were yall ever morally better then this when your people the US government murdered and enslaved the indigenous people of America then called them black and African American when we were already here
I wanted to write something meaningful, but words fail me. What did we do terrible things to such a beautiful part of the world? My heart goes out to all the displaced people and to those who had their lives cut short by radiation damage.
I am not a Bikinian but as a Marshallese myself, I feel for them. Most of the newer generations call them people of Kili rather than Bikini. In fact I thought the people of Enewetak (another atoll in the Marshalls) were the ones relocated from Bikini. These people don’t have a permanent land to call home and soon we all will have just a passport to call home.
That's gonna happen regardless of nuclear left over fallout...the waters rising, most atolls will be under water in how long? But many want to sit there to get cancer or to one day their whole family is kicked off because of flooding washing away your whole home...sounds like someone is close to retarded if not full blown. The definition of stupid to be honest. If the bombs weren't tested you'd still be moving out soon anyway because loss of environment that just won't come back...but apparently that takes a smart person to think of..so let's just complain more until you have no one left to blame but yourself
This area seems to be the closest to paradise on earth, Such peaceful sweet people that could take care of themselves, were happy and healthy.. how could they have done this? How can we still trust the us or any power whatsoever. It breaks my heart, Love, a lot of
This has to be one of the most heart rending documentary I’ve watched. These people have been poisoned lied to experimented on Relocated and treated in the most in humane way. I wish I could turn back time so these beautiful people could live their lives the way they have done So for so long it’s truly sickening what has happened to these people and their homeland. My words are easy to write here. There life love and circumstance is as far away from my words as I could ever imagine
Guess where they did the rest of these experiments until the 1990's? The entire United States got an even bigger dose, for longer. Then it was passed around the world because the U.S. is the bread basket of most of the world. Look into what else thesr Molac worshiping elites are up to.
@chris Do you think if we could've looked into the future... Any of us.. The world would be as it is now? Or do you think we all would've dropped arms and worked at peace harder?
Didn't you know that decades earlier? This was known, provided you were interested. Why do you think Greenpeace came into this world? To block a French atmosferic nuclear test. In the Pacific! Hey...
@@Ed-ty1kr US is bread basket for the world? what have you been smoking lately? Like we don't have food and rely on US canned food airmail, in Poland for example. What a moron you are.
My uncle was in the U.S. Navy at the time and was present for the tests. It was called “Operation Crossroads.” He was on the flagship USS Mount McKinley.
Your Uncle is a hero and a national treasure. My family and I are extremely thankful for his service. Because of his sacrifice and many more brave men we are here and free today. We are extremely grateful for our heros. My Grandfather was in the Korean war in the American Army as a Green Beret. Please thank your uncle for me if he is still alive. God bless America and God bless our heros, and God bless you.
Bikini Atoll is supposed to be where Bikini Bottom from SpongeBob is set. Considering the crazy stuff in that show, radioactivity is probably a good explanation for it all.
My Dad participated in 24 atmospheric, surface and subsurface tests on Enewetok. He passed from a rare bone cancer. He always said it was the most miserable time in his 26 years of service.
Mantle Cell lymphoma is what your dad died from and my dad died from in 2012. My dad's dad was still running his saddle shop at age 89. My dad's 2nd oldest brother lived until 92 and I believe a botched surgery on the wrong body part ended his life early at 92. So I guess I'm trying to say the men have longevity in my dad's family and in 2012 he died at just 72 years old. He only got 7 short years with his grandson who would almost die from meningitis just months after Dad passed. My dad was a genius. He even participated in a government sponsored think tank for a short time. When mom took Dad to one of his cancer treatments the nurse told her the hospital was robbing them. She said dad had no bone marrow at all in his bones and they were just stealing their money.From the time he found out and he seemed normal, just a few months later he became a dependent, helpless, confused, sick person that I didn't recognize and couldn't hardly stand to be around. I lived 5 hours away and am subservient to a 7 days a week job. I never saw my dad alive again and my sister who did at home hospice for him said he wanted to see me in the month he died in August. I'm so ashamed I didn't go. I should've been there for him more. On the night he died I was videoing my son acting goofy in the kitchen. When I reviewed the video an orb floated around us in the kitchen. I have a shoebox full of those tapes that I recorded my son's life on. Two dozen or so. This is the only tape and only scene where there's an orb floating on the video. It was the night my father died! I'm 100% sure that was his last visit to see Brodey and I before moving onto his next life. Dad didn't spend much time with me growing up as he was always working. But to have seen him with my son Brodey was to witness perfection! The love that they shared was a beautiful thing to see. I raised my son in a single parent household until he was 15 years old after his freshmen year in highschool cut short because Covid hit. The following summer I would become the victim of Cancel Culture and Targeted Parental Alienation from his demonic mother. My son will be 19 years old in a few months. I'm going on my 4th Christmas without so much as a pathetic text from him. I told him everyday of his life I loved him. I busted my ass for him on Christmas providing everything a traditional Christmas day celebration includes. I video taped all of his Christmas's.I can tell you I will never again set up another Christmas tree in my lifetime. I may go to church on Christmas Eve and wish Jesus a happy birthday but other than that Christmas is forever dead to me. I'm sorry to hear about your father and I didn't mean to hijack your post. I've never been able to stop once I start making a comment. It ends up part of my story and that's a selfish thing to do, I apologize. May your father as well as mine RIP.
The tragedy of the Bikini Atoll is a silent one. A mundane one. Nobody, today knows this place existed. The people affected are so few the world can't bring itself to care. The people still exists, yet their culture is dying. A culture no one knew existed, a culture no one will miss. Even the people affected seem to have accepted this to some extent.
The people who planned this and the people who carried it out should remember and care. Their descendants should know what they did. And the people who were devastated by this horrible inhuman act won’t forget. And what can they do but not accept it. What a terrible comment.
When you say "no one" you're really saying "none of us white people" who "matter"(to us)...isn't that what you actually mean? THEY KNOW THEY EXIST AND THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED...ARE THEY "NO ONE"???
I disagree. It’s Fear, greed, lust for Power and group think. I don’t think the desire to destroy the world is ever the thought or motivation. It’s just the natural conclusion of these instincts run amok.
My father was in the US Navy at this time. He and his group of sailors were invited to witness a nuclear bomb test from a neighboring island. The " protection" given to them consisted of a pair of sunglasses. Shame on the USA military for their callous disregard for the health of the locals, and their own people.
I notice how they keep trying to talk negatively about the people saying they have a victim mentality and a take mentality. The US took everything from them.
That is true, but a victim mentality doesn't do good to anyone. It makes you ungrateful, dependent and weak. It doesn't let you move on neither grow up. It's not that he is attacking them, the way he says it shows he is sorry and sad for those people. Just look at them. They stopped working for their own sake and started depending on papa government, now they are just a bunch of overweight, lazy people, who just want to "kill time" while they wait for money to be handed to them. Is that a good way of living?
And to think you have people in america that cry about injustice lol really , these people's story is tragic and the US needs to do more shows you how the democrats and republican have forgotten about these people same as the native americans. Fucking sad man.
I am a Koeraean and we live next door to the Marshall Islands and I strongly believe that these nuclear testing should be revisited or reinvestigated for its hidden daimages to those other islands. There have been lots or many Micronesians died from cancerous diseases. The fall out from those testings can travel for miles and miles depending on the direction and the strength of the wind and these testing should be banned for humanity....
I bet your pardon? Are you saying you live next to the marshal islands or are you confused enough to think korea is next to the marshal islands....Korea is almost 3,000 miles away or 5,586 km away...so you're either high or you don't live in Korea. And cancer is what most people die of now....don't think your special, my grandma died of cancer, she's not been around a single nuclear bomb detonation site, she didn't smoke....how many Koreans who get cancer can't put it together that they got it from smoking? Lol yes let's unanimously ban them for all of man kind...we clearly see places like china and Russia completely agreeing to that. So until they stop no one will stop. So as a Korean, maybe you should unite your own country before suggesting what unified countries do instead? North Korea is a problem...you gonna do anything ANY TIME SOON or you gonna let the west fight your wars for you which is what makes nuclear war all the more close...
My Grandfather who fought in the Pacific always said the bombs were unnecessary, we could have blockaded Japan and it would have given up. It was a show of force to the Russians.
The Russians already knew we had the bomb before the damn thing was even tested.Those unnecessary bombs are probably a good reason you're here. Otherwise your grandaddy might have been a grease stain on some Japanese island.
I hate to say it but nuclear testing didn't cause your dad's liver cirrhosis. Although, it very well may have been caused by some chemical they had him working with if he was military or a scientist. Radiation causes a very particular cellular damage and attacks multiple systems by mutating genes. If it had caused his cirrhosis, he would have also been dealing with several other significant maladies simultaneously, not just a failing liver. I'm truly sorry about your dad. My dad also has non alcoholic liver cirrhosis and it's a very difficult disease to deal with. I work in the medical and despite his doctors knowing that, they still treat him like he's dumb and can't find out the truth of what they're telling him by simply asking me. Healthcare should never be the fight some medical professionals turn it into.
Ever since man discovered fire he has never stopped being a pyromaniac throughout time leading to what we see here. Just the sight of the explosion and how it interacts with the elements as it rises and spreads a shockwave devastating everything in its path is both mesmerizing and absolutely terrifying. How man has used his praised intelligence to shape his destiny by waging war one against the other is disappointing for us who understand the value of human life anf the value of our Earth. We must seem as a very stupid species to aliens watching the shit we do to each other and to our home.
@Sarbaaz Chabahar Destroy itself? "humanity" took it upon itslef through blasphemous hubris, ignorance, greed, fear and power hunger to threaten and destroy _all_ life. We are beyond both redemption and salvation my friend.
I'm pretty sure most humans wish for peace. It's just that we have a whole bunch of war mongering maniacs in charge of global affairs. Give a chimp a nuke button, and he'll threaten the entire world for a stack of bananas.
@@dave8599 yes, the imperial Japanese would've probably slaughtered them without much thought but in my estimation the US was deceptive and that was just a crueler more prolonged death. I guess if you want to depersonalize them and say their sacrifice dissuaded the world from hostile detonation of one of these monstrosities. Ah well, everything happens for a reason, we just get caught up in the fuckery, that's life.
I remember that. I also remember as a child protesting against the atom bomb tests done by France when Chirac was president - and I remember the Rainbow Warrior, that would navigate right into the restriced zone in order to stop the tests. And how the Rainbow Warrior was sunk by the French Secret Service, and how the photographer that was on board died. And while I was protesting that, I also learned what had happened to the people that had been living there. Heartbreaking, and outrageous. I am 43.
We preached about "good" and "evil" to our children and teached them to do good but as a teacher, we do opposite to our teaching and beliefs. Humanity is a true devil in a suit.
I’m 63 and we learned a little about this in school. I learned a lot more from my Father who was a Marine on Iwo Jima. Bikini 👙 was such a gorgeous atoll. It breaks my heart 💔that the USA 🇺🇸 pushed the residents off their homeland and destroyed it forever 😢
26:02 'According to the military there were two reasons why people had suffered.' The more powerful explosion than planned, and the change of winds... Aren't they forgetting the much more fundamental reason... like them detonating a nuclear weapon in the first place?
Nah, that bomb contained Lithium. And the scientists disagreed on how Lithium would behave during the explosion. How many neutrons would it give free? The outcome was a surprise, the nuclear reaction was much stronger than expected. Such things happened, those days. But this bang was really dangerous for the men in the bunker close by.
@@voornaam3191 So why go thousands if Monsanto do this? It was for the benefit, supposedly, of U.S. citizens, so do do the experiments in America. Oh, yeah, they knew how dangerous that shot was and wanted to just kill people they considered unimportant and expendable.
8 year US Army Combat Medic out of Fort Hood. I had NO FREAKING EARTHLY IDEA that this crap has gone on and I AM ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED. We’re still paying reparations to Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims WHILE OUR OWN F-ING ATOMIC VETS with CLEAR LINE OF DUTY ILLNESSES are turned down by the VA. The flag I fought for, the flag I wore on my shoulder everyday for 8 years, the flag I would have died for if it was asked of me, the flag MY FRIENDS have been buried under, the flag I was given when I retired that I have framed in my living room and USED TO look at proudly, I thought, was so much better than this.
You put it so well Amy, thanks for that heartfelt message. Where I work, in the last few years, at least a couple of dozen islanders from that area are my coworkers, and ALL of them are so happy, a joy to be around, and such hard workers. I've tried to explain to some of these younger ones about what took place in this area of the South Pacific, and they don't even know about it, it's sad. And they are such beautiful people through and through.....
Well I guess that happens when you join the military, yet know nothing of its history....probably one of those "I didnt join to fight, I joined to go to college" types
Sorry dude, your flag, like my flag, is soaked in blood. At least now you know. This is the kind of thing that used to be meant by being woke btw. Before that term was weaponised by the same people who don't want you to wake up to this reality. They want people to stay asleep & blind to their crimes.
im a pacific islander, my dad was in the army out of fort hood also. he served solely just to make enough to raise us. its not the fault of service members but rather the gov brainwashing into believing "serving our country" means using the people as pawns to dominate other countries to serve the 1percent. we deserve better than all of this
26:03 "We're not the ones to blame, people! The bomb was way more powerful than we anticipated and the wind changed direction. The wind is to blame" 🤦♂🤦🤦♀
Why not do the tests in the U.S.? Oh, yeah, they didn't want to maim and kill OUR people. You know, the people in the country supposedly benefiting from these tests.
No, not at all, the people had the names of King Judah, they called it an exodus when they they had a BBQ with them ans the irradiated those people. Most do not know what this was. This was evil pure and simple, no mistakes here, except the people, believed those who came were kind, instead of evil
@@skumsters2323 I mean, Russia did the same thing. But the US and Russia were the only two countries that even had the A-bomb in the beginning. How could anyone give either of them a hard time about it?
@@MikeJones-yo8en you are right, i know this....but we all know Russia is crazy....I expect better from the so called leaders of the (western) world. if they are our example, we are done mate. love
You are right on this, i know....but we also all know Russia is crazy.. The us are called the leaders of the world, the western that is.... but if the us are our example we are done mate. Mad world it was but it is going bonkers. I wish love to all.
@@MikeJones-yo8en You are right on this, i know.... but we also all know Russia is crazy.. The us are called the leaders of the world, the western that is.... but if the us are our example we are done mate. Mad world it was but it is going bonkers. I wish love to all.
Thank you! But in Nevada they did do this slightly over? Sorry im dutch, but the us can freak my head out,,, A lot of great people, arts and music...but your government.... each way you go, is crazy to me and a lot of us europians, I'ld say most will never want to trade with you folks. A lot of countries in Afrika these days are better of, then the trailerpark living a lot of you hard working folks are condemned to. Here in the netherlands shit aint getting better as well, greed rules and will be the end of us all. Sorry for my ... A lot of love!
The Government should not be allowed to do anything or spend money unless it's voted on by we the people. IT is obvious that the people that made these decisions are not capable of clear thoughts.
This is sickening and heartbreaking. The US military has ruined these people's home for the foreseeable future. I don't really think it was all worth it, not for those innocents who suffered and continue to suffer, not only the loss of their home, but the loss of their health and that of their descendants and not worth it for the world, either. This is yet another group negatively impacted by American arrogance.
Only those at the very tippy top of the military know the true motives of their actions. For most enlisted men, they are lied or misled in believing that what is being done is for some good cause. In many ways they too are victims since many enlist to serve and protect their nations. I’d hate to be one of these men who come to the realization they unknowingly created such suffrage on others.
It’s crazy to think that people would do this. They were playing with power they had no idea what it would do. They were like a child who found their dad’s gun. I feel so bad for these people. Their entire culture was ripped apart .
1955 or 56 USS ESTES and another ship was at sea inside the perimeter of the testing of Hydrogen bomb blast. During that time of the the blast, the other ship that was between the Estes and Island was hit with a violent blast of wind on the side of the ship. The other ship tilted so far as it almost flipped over on its side but luckily went back upright. There was 5 or 6 airplanes that was flying into the Brite white mushroom cloud and coming out the other side and circling back into the mushroom cloud 4 or 5 times more. The guys from the Estes nicknamed those pilots Kamakazis because they were already doomed to die from radiation after that. During the blast the men on the Estes who were ordered to sit down on the deck and close their eyes and cover them with their arm saw for 3 to 4 seconds the bone in their arm. It was like having an xray. A couple miles away outside the blast perimeter was a Japanese Fishing Boat that was hit with flying debris from the blast due to wind shifting direction. The Fishermen later discovered what the blast was and demanded from the Japanese government monetary compensation. He believes this was the first of the Hydrogen bombs that were tested at sea.
My father and his ship mates were charged with the task of towing the vessels those that didn’t sink and cleaning them needless to say we have had our share of effects from this test our genetics were altered I feel bad for the families that were affected, I pray that this never happens again 😢
Thanks for continuing to help shed the light on the atrocities that are committed by the U S government and other governments around the world...they truly affect us all
Tsar Bomba was designed to be a 100 megaton weapon. It was scaled back to 50 megatons because the Russian scientists were afraid it might ignite the atmosphere. At 50 megatons it was the same yield as Bravo. Nothing stronger has ever been detonated.
Fun fact: the Japanese captured the islands from the Germans during WW1, then ruled Bikini (along with the rest of the Marshall's) from 1914 until the US captured the islands.
Couple of factual errors. The 1949 Soviet bomb was a fission bomb, not a "hydrogen" or fusion bomb. The Castle Bravo bomb was the most powerful bomb up to that time but was far exceeded by the Soviet Tsar bomb at 50Mt
LAYER CAKE. That's another name for the Russian fission bomb. Thing is, at the time, as US intelligence had to calculate the yield from seismographic information & atmospheric particle collection, they reasonably but wrongly concluded the Russians had detonated a small hydrogen bomb.
The power of the "Tsar-bomb" corresponded to the calculations, the power of Castle Bravo was the result of a misunderstanding of the physics of the process. Also, Castle Bravo wasn't a «bomb», it was a “device”.
I hide my shame by covering my face as tears and sorrows emerge within. I was born in 1942 and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that because of all the testing during my lifetime, I too am radioactive. Sincerely I do remain at 79, Sentebey in USA.
The worst evils have been visited on humanity "for the good of mankind". You forgot to mention that on the ships that weren't sunk, there were animals that died agonising deaths so the military could see the effect of radiation on mammalian life. Man's wickedness knows no bounds. 30:44 The beautiful ship, Rainbow Warrior was sunk in Auckland Harbour NZ (a Nuclear-Free, peace-loving country) by agents of the french government (killing one person) to prevent it from protesting the french nuclear testing in the Pacific. How cowardly are the nuclear powers. The USA knew of this murderous plot, but refused to warn its allies, New Zealand, because it was frightened of NZs anti-nuclear stance. How craven is the USA in refusing to take a moral stance on sovereignty.
It's not really "man's wickedness" it's really just the "WHITE CHRISTIAN MAN'S WICKEDNESS" we're looking at here and everywhere you find this level of injustice...something to think about.
One of the best sources for references was the book Operation Crossroads: The Atomic Bomb Tests at Bikini Atoll by Jonathan Weisgall. I'd recommend that to anyone interested in this topic. I used it extensively in college for many of my papers.
7:03 'The russians have already detonated a hydrogen bomb.' This was a mis-edit. (and you can see the guy's later comments in the video to verify this) Operation Crossroads was executed in 1946. Russia detonated Joe-1 (fission weapon) in 1949. Russia's first thermonuclear weapon was tested in 1953, the year after Ivy Mike. Maybe the editors of this documentary mixed in the guy talking about Operation Castle (1954) instead at the wrong place in this documentary? Sadly the real reason behind Operation Crossroads in 1946 was a piss fight between the US Army and the Navy. You can look up the actual history.
Goodness! A little artistic creativity with facts isn't new in documentaries pushing a narrative! This is more about shaping attitudes and invoking feelings than accuracy.
Yeah that hit hard. Those poor people and their children and children's children. They lost their land and their lives because of the decision made by someone of power.
I found out about this bombing of there islands (late 40s ) when I went to a training school in Arizona we had alot of marshal Islanders and around there
First of all sound does not travel at the speed of light. Very few documentaries about nuclear tests get this right, they always mix in an artificial explosion sound that is not even remotely representative of what such an explosion would sound like. Second, at 14:57 they are inexplicably mixing in a video clip from the Baker shot (the more famous one from Operation Crossroads, exploded from under the water) before returning to the Able videos. (an airdrop) Either way the horrific fact is that Operation Crossroads happened because of a piss fight between the US Army (then still in control of all nuclear weapons) and the US Navy. (which tried to prove that its fleet was not vulnerable to such weapons) It wasn't even yet about the even more horrific piss fight with the Soviets!
I think you missed the whole point of this video. Your argument about what, why where it was done is meaningless when it comes to the facts of what happened to these peoples and their lands, and the ongoing demise of what their later generations health conditions are.....
I can’t take this documentary seriously due to the errors. The filmmaker shows Crossroads Baker as Crossroads Able. One of their “experts” also implies that the USSR got the H Bomb before the USA.
One thing you should take seriously though, is the fact America we’re responsible for a great against these people. A wrong, that 75 years later they have still not put right.
errors are no reason to DENY the basic truths of our crimes against nature and humanity! Don't be childish /petty/complicit by not taking the actual crimes seriously!
this is so evil and aint going lie i broke down watching this . i dont even know what to say lost for words but all can say this straight up evil its like they dont even care about these people and they are human beings and today these people still suffer why they should be able to get what ever they want and live a good life if possible and no thats not going to fix it but may help them some and 7 min lying to these people . i pray for justice for these people
@@AffirmativeArtsOnTheRoad I wasn’t racism because there were test in the Nevada desert had multiple test and the people suffering from the test were never compensated.
This tragedy breaks my heart. I know we were in an arms race, and it was real. If we didn't counter Soviet expansion/imperialism, who would have? I truly believe there is huge difference between autocracies and democracies, regardless of the flaws that still exist in democracies. We have much work to do. But look at what happened to the Soviet Union. It failed miserably, and it was catastrophic for it's people. It was not a stable system, and only time will tell if ours is stable in the long term as well. With that said, WHY could we have not made better decisions about relocating these people? WHY could we have not chosen an uninhabited island or atoll to test on? At the very least, we owe these people some fertile land, and the basic knowledge to use it. Giving us fish everyday, does not bring meaning or happiness to our lives. Learning to fish and enjoying the rewards of that work, does. And the worst part, is that they already knew this, literally, t o begin with. It is because of us, that they lost this.
It's just a fucking sound effect dropped in to add tension. You know this. I know this. Everyone knows this. We all know it's an editing technique. We all know you would see the explosion before you heard it. Pointing this out isn't clever. Fucking shut up Mr Dunning - Kruger.
The US Blew up Nukes on their own soil also. I don’t believe nuclear fallout is as devastating as publicly believed. Chernobyl and it’s surrounding area is being reclaimed by nature by plants and animals.
Where do you think the global rising cancer figures since the '50-s came from? It is denied in all tonalities, but it is crystal clear why your grand parents and uncles died ten years too early. Nuclear tests. What else?!
This is so heart breaking and infuriating! How could America do this? I love how im just learning about this at 42!! America only teaches its children the good things Americans do. We're bound to repeat this atrocity.
Tough break I bet. I felt the same when I found out about atrocities committed by British troops all round the world. Hell of a wake up call, I know. Welcome to the other side.
there were a total of 67 A bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. 44 of them were on Enewetak Atoll… the balance on Bikini… you should do a story about Enewetak too…
they have survived. many have not. you don't see the many that did not make it. and do not think things are over. the ocean will be poisoned for many years. that island has a spot, covered in concrete. but the radioactive waste is escaping into the ocean. how can one solve that problem? it is horrible. even if you support the americans, you will agree this is a complicated problem. what on earth is best?
I support the USA, but that is really brutual, The US says the accident of the U.S.S liberty was brutual, but when they bombed a tribe with over 60+ bombs AND a nuclear bomb, they didn't do anything, like speak about yourself first before
They supposed to bomb themselves for getting involved in the soviet/german/pole/jew thing, they left in the 1770 and just left it on.. one for each state even micro city's like in utah
My grandma still alive and her husband worked on Bikini island he got radiation poison and died and she only got a little. But bikini island still pays her for that.. he was one of the engineers. But her stories are really wild like none believable
Wait, did they add ammo to the battle ships or were they too lazy to remove the existing ammo from a ship? Was Alec Baldwin in charge of set design that day? Why would "set props" have live ammo on board? SO... MANY... QUESTIONS
Are you being serious? If these tests were to test how a nuclear bomb would affect our fleet at sea, the ships need to be exactly as they would be in wartime...its not a hard concept to understand, yet no one seems to get it, or chooses to play stupid so they can display "wokeness".
I'm a U.S. Navy Vet living in Canada, I'm 67. Folks here ask me, from time to time, what I really think about the States. I tell them overall I'm ashamed of what the States stands for militarily and politically. Other then that there is no universal health care like we have here in Canada. Most world governments don't give a rats ass about their citizens or any one else's. Just the way of the world.
Forget the islands. The Nevada Test Site. (65 miles north of Las Vegas.) On January 27, 1951, nuclear testing at the NTS officially began with the detonation of Shot Able, a 1-kiloton bomb, as part of Operation Ranger. Between 1951 and 1992, the U.S. government conducted a total of 1,021 nuclear tests here. Out of these tests 100 were atmospheric, and 921 were underground. Test facilities for nuclear rocket and ramjet engines were also constructed and used from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. 100 Above Ground! In NEVADA! Can't you tell? We've been in a nuclear winter for decades.... (global warming my ass) That's not counting all the other nation's tests.
Its a bit messed up how the Americans celebrated their victory like that. I mean a lot of people died and shouldn't we grieve for all the lives that were lost? I may sound a bit stupid in this comment but just saying
Reading thru the various remarks in here neither were the Americans involved spared. War is blind, the radiation wasn't selective. The googles provided didn't shield their bodies from cancers that ensued.
This documentary has been very hard to watch. Seeing what those people have gone through over the decades is incomparable and disheartening in the truest form. American Might huh…
The sailors aboard the ship my father was on in the Pacific did not celebrate the news of Hiroshima. My father said it became very quite in the chow hall after the announcement,
There is a seperate video on that H-bomb that contained a lot of Lithium. They had no idea what the Lithium would do. To their surprise, it had a huge impact. So the men in the measuring bunker were shocked. Six yards of concrete moving, like it was cardboard. Get out of there. And they sent... a helicopter. Great, in highly radioactive dust, they sent a helicopter. Bad idea. How about a truck?
@VoorNam There was previous bombs dropped, they dropped a bomb in Japan and killed lots of innocent people there too, The murders on the Marshal Islands happened in the 1950s!
@@voornaam3191 Bullfuckingshit. They knew after Hiroshima. Why do you think they did it far, far away from U.S. soil? They Hoffman k we. Why were they planning for the wind to be blowing away from the people? Because the forgetfulness knew, that's why.
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The reason why the bomb was more power powerful is that...lithium 5 and lithium 6...one was though to inert but it just made it more powerful by mistake...!
@@steveshoemaker6347 That was a worst shameful act by US as it took thousands of Japanese lives and leaving even more handicapped and with life threatening cancerous disease. And it is even more shameful as how the US citizens supported and celebrated this heinous crimes done by their country and taking it as pride of humankind. Even now at present nothing has changed much as what the US is doing in Gaza supporting the Zionist regime of Israel is also no different from what it had done with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I’m 49 and I’m just now learning about the scope of what we’ve done. Nothing could convince me that this is ok and I’m certainly not anti military. I was in the Army myself, I used to believe we were morally better than this. I was obviously wrong.
Thank you, Tears for Fears you tube 'SHOUT SHOUT LET IT ALL OUT' SO HEARTWARMING to see all the kiddies n families be as one.
This is not that simple. The first bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki stopped the Japanese emperor. That was important, it really saved many lives, even though many died. Those are horrible dilemma's, but in the end, you can agree, maybe this was better.
But the Cold War, and today the Second Cold War, do you have any idea how many nuclear weopons have been tested? There were THOUSANDS of atomic explosions. And there are thousands of missiles and bombs and torpedo's and God knows what. If only one is used, in angry, by accident, what will happen? Will you survive? Will I survive? I tell you, those politicians are crazy. I hope the generals are wise. Why do we need these poisonous weapons? When too many angry guys push the button, the entire world can die. Homo sapiens is not sapiens, we are homo destructivus. People can kill the world. And it will surprise you, how easy it is, to kill all human beings. Oops, nuclear winter. Nuclear clouds in the sky will obscure the sun. Oops, no crops anymore. Oops. End of our story. Never thought about that?! No, you believe everything the governments tell you. They do not tell you this. Nuclear winter is a real problem. And it can be your last.
How were yall ever morally better then this when your people the US government murdered and enslaved the indigenous people of America then called them black and African American when we were already here
Well said.
@@ib485 Manifest destiny my friend. It's just business.
I wanted to write something meaningful, but words fail me.
What did we do terrible things to such a beautiful part of the world? My heart goes out to all the displaced people and to those who had their lives cut short by radiation damage.
I am not a Bikinian but as a Marshallese myself, I feel for them. Most of the newer generations call them people of Kili rather than Bikini. In fact I thought the people of Enewetak (another atoll in the Marshalls) were the ones relocated from Bikini. These people don’t have a permanent land to call home and soon we all will have just a passport to call home.
Yep
True
I thought bikini was marshallese?
That's gonna happen regardless of nuclear left over fallout...the waters rising, most atolls will be under water in how long? But many want to sit there to get cancer or to one day their whole family is kicked off because of flooding washing away your whole home...sounds like someone is close to retarded if not full blown.
The definition of stupid to be honest. If the bombs weren't tested you'd still be moving out soon anyway because loss of environment that just won't come back...but apparently that takes a smart person to think of..so let's just complain more until you have no one left to blame but yourself
This area seems to be the closest to paradise on earth,
Such peaceful sweet people that could take care of themselves, were happy and healthy..
how could they have done this?
How can we still trust the us or any power whatsoever.
It breaks my heart,
Love, a lot of
This has to be one of the most heart rending documentary I’ve watched. These people have been poisoned lied to experimented on Relocated and treated in the most in humane way. I wish I could turn back time so these beautiful people could live their lives the way they have done So for so long it’s truly sickening what has happened to these people and their homeland. My words are easy to write here. There life love and circumstance is as far away from my words as I could ever imagine
Guess where they did the rest of these experiments until the 1990's? The entire United States got an even bigger dose, for longer. Then it was passed around the world because the U.S. is the bread basket of most of the world. Look into what else thesr Molac worshiping elites are up to.
@chris
Do you think if we could've looked into the future... Any of us.. The world would be as it is now? Or do you think we all would've dropped arms and worked at peace harder?
Didn't you know that decades earlier? This was known, provided you were interested. Why do you think Greenpeace came into this world? To block a French atmosferic nuclear test. In the Pacific! Hey...
@@Ed-ty1kr US is bread basket for the world? what have you been smoking lately?
Like we don't have food and rely on US canned food airmail, in Poland for example. What a moron you are.
IT'S GOOD TO SEE THERE ARE SOME HUMAN LOVE LEFT
My uncle was in the U.S. Navy at the time and was present for the tests. It was called “Operation Crossroads.” He was on the flagship USS Mount McKinley.
Your Uncle is a hero and a national treasure. My family and I are extremely thankful for his service. Because of his sacrifice and many more brave men we are here and free today. We are extremely grateful for our heros. My Grandfather was in the Korean war in the American Army as a Green Beret. Please thank your uncle for me if he is still alive. God bless America and God bless our heros, and God bless you.
Bikini Atoll is supposed to be where Bikini Bottom from SpongeBob is set. Considering the crazy stuff in that show, radioactivity is probably a good explanation for it all.
It’s not supposed. That’s confirm by Stephen hillenberg
No but thats where they got that swimsuit name from
My Dad participated in 24 atmospheric, surface and subsurface tests on Enewetok. He passed from a rare bone cancer. He always said it was the most miserable time in his 26 years of service.
Mantle Cell lymphoma is what your dad died from and my dad died from in 2012. My dad's dad was still running his saddle shop at age 89. My dad's 2nd oldest brother lived until 92 and I believe a botched surgery on the wrong body part ended his life early at 92. So I guess I'm trying to say the men have longevity in my dad's family and in 2012 he died at just 72 years old. He only got 7 short years with his grandson who would almost die from meningitis just months after Dad passed. My dad was a genius. He even participated in a government sponsored think tank for a short time. When mom took Dad to one of his cancer treatments the nurse told her the hospital was robbing them. She said dad had no bone marrow at all in his bones and they were just stealing their money.From the time he found out and he seemed normal, just a few months later he became a dependent, helpless, confused, sick person that I didn't recognize and couldn't hardly stand to be around. I lived 5 hours away and am subservient to a 7 days a week job. I never saw my dad alive again and my sister who did at home hospice for him said he wanted to see me in the month he died in August. I'm so ashamed I didn't go. I should've been there for him more. On the night he died I was videoing my son acting goofy in the kitchen. When I reviewed the video an orb floated around us in the kitchen. I have a shoebox full of those tapes that I recorded my son's life on. Two dozen or so. This is the only tape and only scene where there's an orb floating on the video. It was the night my father died! I'm 100% sure that was his last visit to see Brodey and I before moving onto his next life. Dad didn't spend much time with me growing up as he was always working. But to have seen him with my son Brodey was to witness perfection! The love that they shared was a beautiful thing to see. I raised my son in a single parent household until he was 15 years old after his freshmen year in highschool cut short because Covid hit. The following summer I would become the victim of Cancel Culture and Targeted Parental Alienation from his demonic mother. My son will be 19 years old in a few months. I'm going on my 4th Christmas without so much as a pathetic text from him. I told him everyday of his life I loved him. I busted my ass for him on Christmas providing everything a traditional Christmas day celebration includes. I video taped all of his Christmas's.I can tell you I will never again set up another Christmas tree in my lifetime. I may go to church on Christmas Eve and wish Jesus a happy birthday but other than that Christmas is forever dead to me. I'm sorry to hear about your father and I didn't mean to hijack your post. I've never been able to stop once I start making a comment. It ends up part of my story and that's a selfish thing to do, I apologize. May your father as well as mine RIP.
@@johnathanhurd3561 Ever heard the song, "The Living Years"?
There is something profoundly sad and demented about the atomic testing
The tragedy of the Bikini Atoll is a silent one. A mundane one.
Nobody, today knows this place existed. The people affected are so few the world can't bring itself to care. The people still exists, yet their culture is dying. A culture no one knew existed, a culture no one will miss.
Even the people affected seem to have accepted this to some extent.
The people who planned this and the people who carried it out should remember and care. Their descendants should know what they did. And the people who were devastated by this horrible inhuman act won’t forget. And what can they do but not accept it. What a terrible comment.
When you say "no one" you're really saying "none of us white people" who "matter"(to us)...isn't that what you actually mean? THEY KNOW THEY EXIST AND THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED...ARE THEY "NO ONE"???
@Irene Maria The school system barely even touches on much more important (no disrespect) recent history.
@@Failzz8 More worried about binary gender education than real world history.
@Irene Maria Uh-huh. Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it !!
Man strives to create every conceivable way to destroy the earth and life.
And mAn is getting better at it.
The driving force behind such evil acts is the fundamental hate for Our creator and all of his creation
Especially us
I know rite mate🙏💓✌️
I disagree. It’s Fear, greed, lust for Power and group think. I don’t think the desire to destroy the world is ever the thought or motivation. It’s just the natural conclusion of these instincts run amok.
@@Elnmaxrbffs Nonsense
My father was in the US Navy at this time. He and his group of sailors were invited to witness a nuclear bomb test from a neighboring island. The " protection" given to them consisted of a pair of sunglasses.
Shame on the USA military for their callous disregard for the health of the locals, and their own people.
Did he ever engage in homosexual acts with his fellow sailors?
if so make sure and report him to your nearest thought police officer @@hungdaddy5004
This is sucha misleading film, with its timline being wacky.
@@KevinDC5yes they contradicted themselves several times in their timeline. My dad was in the Navy and was stationed there also.
I notice how they keep trying to talk negatively about the people saying they have a victim mentality and a take mentality. The US took everything from them.
That is true, but a victim mentality doesn't do good to anyone. It makes you ungrateful, dependent and weak. It doesn't let you move on neither grow up. It's not that he is attacking them, the way he says it shows he is sorry and sad for those people.
Just look at them. They stopped working for their own sake and started depending on papa government, now they are just a bunch of overweight, lazy people, who just want to "kill time" while they wait for money to be handed to them. Is that a good way of living?
Criminals!
Fake news. They were compensated royally.
@@warrenrosen132wtf did you smoke pal??
@@Eppo1965 He didn't smoke, he had a fcking seizure
NO DOCUMENT has EVER said that they were compensated. Only downplay exist
And to think you have people in america that cry about injustice lol really , these people's story is tragic and the US needs to do more shows you how the democrats and republican have forgotten about these people same as the native americans. Fucking sad man.
I am a Koeraean and we live next door to the Marshall Islands and I strongly believe that these nuclear testing should be revisited or reinvestigated for its hidden daimages to those other islands. There have been lots or many Micronesians died from cancerous diseases. The fall out from those testings can travel for miles and miles depending on the direction and the strength of the wind and these testing should be banned for humanity....
You hit the nail right on the head, thank you!
You think America gives a single shit about that or you? News flash, they don't.
I bet your pardon? Are you saying you live next to the marshal islands or are you confused enough to think korea is next to the marshal islands....Korea is almost 3,000 miles away or 5,586 km away...so you're either high or you don't live in Korea. And cancer is what most people die of now....don't think your special, my grandma died of cancer, she's not been around a single nuclear bomb detonation site, she didn't smoke....how many Koreans who get cancer can't put it together that they got it from smoking?
Lol yes let's unanimously ban them for all of man kind...we clearly see places like china and Russia completely agreeing to that. So until they stop no one will stop.
So as a Korean, maybe you should unite your own country before suggesting what unified countries do instead? North Korea is a problem...you gonna do anything ANY TIME SOON or you gonna let the west fight your wars for you which is what makes nuclear war all the more close...
Yall was warned to move and had option to be relocated at US Expense but declined.
Tell Kim to stop testing Bombs 1st and we'll happily stop. America 1st!
My Grandfather who fought in the Pacific always said the bombs were unnecessary, we could have blockaded Japan and it would have given up. It was a show of force to the Russians.
The Russians already knew we had the bomb before the damn thing was even tested.Those unnecessary bombs are probably a good reason you're here. Otherwise your grandaddy might have been a grease stain on some Japanese island.
When she said "We thought the Americans HAD STARTED THE WAR AGAIN...and we raced to the ocean to see if there were ships.''
Hard to believe my father was there. RIP, Papa.
Rest in peace to your father ❤
RIP to your father.
never trust your government or individuals of power. All these individuals strive for is money, power and total control
My dad was there and died of scerosis of the liver at age 47. He never drank!
😞
I saw people gathering data with minimum or no protection. I wondered what the fate of those men was. Thanks for sharing the revealing information
I hate to say it but nuclear testing didn't cause your dad's liver cirrhosis. Although, it very well may have been caused by some chemical they had him working with if he was military or a scientist. Radiation causes a very particular cellular damage and attacks multiple systems by mutating genes. If it had caused his cirrhosis, he would have also been dealing with several other significant maladies simultaneously, not just a failing liver.
I'm truly sorry about your dad. My dad also has non alcoholic liver cirrhosis and it's a very difficult disease to deal with. I work in the medical and despite his doctors knowing that, they still treat him like he's dumb and can't find out the truth of what they're telling him by simply asking me. Healthcare should never be the fight some medical professionals turn it into.
@Löschwahn he didn't do drugs, didn't smoke, didn't chew, didn't drink, didn't cuss.
I'm so sorry
Ever since man discovered fire he has never stopped being a pyromaniac throughout time leading to what we see here. Just the sight of the explosion and how it interacts with the elements as it rises and spreads a shockwave devastating everything in its path is both mesmerizing and absolutely terrifying. How man has used his praised intelligence to shape his destiny by waging war one against the other is disappointing for us who understand the value of human life anf the value of our Earth. We must seem as a very stupid species to aliens watching the shit we do to each other and to our home.
Brilliant statement...I concur!!!
Well said
That's why the aliens don't talk to us.
We're too dumb for the room.
There's something special about a species that is hell bent on wiping their own species out.
True
Mankind is the most deadliest weapon in history. Stephen Hawking Warns Humanity Could Destroy Itself In The Next 100 Years.
Sarbaaz chabahar : No , Not " mankind " Its government ! The US government !!! That's the deadliest threat in history !
@Sarbaaz Chabahar Destroy itself? "humanity" took it upon itslef through blasphemous hubris, ignorance, greed, fear and power hunger to threaten and destroy _all_ life. We are beyond both redemption and salvation my friend.
"Mankind" is a lot of people. Most likely it will be done by a very tiny percentage of power hungry manchildren waving their mega weapons around.
I'm pretty sure most humans wish for peace. It's just that we have a whole bunch of war mongering maniacs in charge of global affairs. Give a chimp a nuke button, and he'll threaten the entire world for a stack of bananas.
@@stevelamperta865 agreed
“We didn’t know this word, poison.” 23:42 These poor people.
Those poor people would have had it a lot worse if Japan had won. Does the Rape of Nangking ring a bell?
@@dave8599 yes, the imperial Japanese would've probably slaughtered them without much thought but in my estimation the US was deceptive and that was just a crueler more prolonged death. I guess if you want to depersonalize them and say their sacrifice dissuaded the world from hostile detonation of one of these monstrosities. Ah well, everything happens for a reason, we just get caught up in the fuckery, that's life.
My father was downwind in New Mexico in the 1940's. The U.S. military has a lot to answer for.
Yes, it does.
I remember that. I also remember as a child protesting against the atom bomb tests done by France when Chirac was president - and I remember the Rainbow Warrior, that would navigate right into the restriced zone in order to stop the tests. And how the Rainbow Warrior was sunk by the French Secret Service, and how the photographer that was on board died. And while I was protesting that, I also learned what had happened to the people that had been living there. Heartbreaking, and outrageous. I am 43.
We preached about "good" and "evil" to our children and teached them to do good but as a teacher, we do opposite to our teaching and beliefs. Humanity is a true devil in a suit.
I’m 63 and we learned a little about this in school. I learned a lot more from my Father who was a Marine on Iwo Jima. Bikini 👙 was such a gorgeous atoll. It breaks my heart 💔that the USA 🇺🇸 pushed the residents off their homeland and destroyed it forever 😢
I heard that when the marines overcome the Japanese, the Japanese offered their butt holes to the Americans as a piece offering
26:02 'According to the military there were two reasons why people had suffered.' The more powerful explosion than planned, and the change of winds...
Aren't they forgetting the much more fundamental reason... like them detonating a nuclear weapon in the first place?
No kidding. Like punching someone and blaming them for getting in the way.
Nah, that bomb contained Lithium. And the scientists disagreed on how Lithium would behave during the explosion. How many neutrons would it give free? The outcome was a surprise, the nuclear reaction was much stronger than expected. Such things happened, those days. But this bang was really dangerous for the men in the bunker close by.
America is very jealous how USSR successfully detonating Atomic bomb (Tsar Bomba)
@@voornaam3191 So why go thousands if Monsanto do this? It was for the benefit, supposedly, of U.S. citizens, so do do the experiments in America. Oh, yeah, they knew how dangerous that shot was and wanted to just kill people they considered unimportant and expendable.
Some man are monsters wanting more power to crush the little people
Leftist socialist communist men.
My grandfather was there, he died a horrible cancer in 1967
This types are very important, especially for many people understanding. Thank you very much. You're incredible
8 year US Army Combat Medic out of Fort Hood.
I had NO FREAKING EARTHLY IDEA that this crap has gone on and I AM ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED. We’re still paying reparations to Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims WHILE OUR OWN F-ING ATOMIC VETS with CLEAR LINE OF DUTY ILLNESSES are turned down by the VA. The flag I fought for, the flag I wore on my shoulder everyday for 8 years, the flag I would have died for if it was asked of me, the flag MY FRIENDS have been buried under, the flag I was given when I retired that I have framed in my living room and USED TO look at proudly, I thought, was so much better than this.
You put it so well Amy, thanks for that heartfelt message. Where I work, in the last few years, at least a couple of dozen islanders from that area are my coworkers, and ALL of them are so happy, a joy to be around, and such hard workers. I've tried to explain to some of these younger ones about what took place in this area of the South Pacific, and they don't even know about it, it's sad. And they are such beautiful people through and through.....
Well I guess that happens when you join the military, yet know nothing of its history....probably one of those "I didnt join to fight, I joined to go to college" types
Sorry dude, your flag, like my flag, is soaked in blood. At least now you know.
This is the kind of thing that used to be meant by being woke btw. Before that term was weaponised by the same people who don't want you to wake up to this reality. They want people to stay asleep & blind to their crimes.
im a pacific islander, my dad was in the army out of fort hood also. he served solely just to make enough to raise us. its not the fault of service members but rather the gov brainwashing into believing "serving our country" means using the people as pawns to dominate other countries to serve the 1percent. we deserve better than all of this
So sad. Also search John Pilger's - "The Coming War On China" Documentary. The first part he visits the Marshall islands and interviews the people.
the documentary is pro CCP propaganda
@@Zerosen89 no it wasn't
@Zerosen89 Anything that exposes the US government for their humanitarian crimes is propaganda
26:03 "We're not the ones to blame, people! The bomb was way more powerful than we anticipated and the wind changed direction. The wind is to blame" 🤦♂🤦🤦♀
Are you suggesting that the federal government doesn’t have everyone’s best interests in mind?
@@revolvermaster4939 👍🏼
Why not do the tests in the U.S.? Oh, yeah, they didn't want to maim and kill OUR people. You know, the people in the country supposedly benefiting from these tests.
No, not at all, the people had the names of King Judah, they called it an exodus when they they had a BBQ with them ans the irradiated those people. Most do not know what this was. This was evil pure and simple, no mistakes here, except the people, believed those who came were kind, instead of evil
Tapi diorang laa yang takut mati
“Area of Acceptable Fallout” is one of the stupidest phrases I’ve ever heard in my life.
only the us gets away with that kind of bullocks
@@skumsters2323 I mean, Russia did the same thing. But the US and Russia were the only two countries that even had the A-bomb in the beginning. How could anyone give either of them a hard time about it?
@@MikeJones-yo8en you are right, i know this....but we all know Russia is crazy....I expect better from the so called leaders of the (western) world. if they are our example, we are done mate. love
You are right on this, i know....but we also all know Russia is crazy..
The us are called the leaders of the world, the western that is.... but if the us are our example we are done mate. Mad world it was but it is going bonkers. I wish love to all.
@@MikeJones-yo8en You are right on this,
i know....
but we also all know Russia is crazy..
The us are called the leaders of the world, the western that is....
but if the us are our example we are done mate.
Mad world it was but it is going bonkers.
I wish love to all.
Man Is Destined To Destroy Himself Through His Own Stupidity!!!!!!!!!!
It already started a long time ago and I genuinely feel its past the point of no return
Only if they let people who manipulates them into destructive acts will it happen.
White Man that is
Should have used DC for the test instead of Bikini Is
Thank you!
But in Nevada they did do this slightly over?
Sorry im dutch, but the us can freak my head out,,,
A lot of great people, arts and music...but your government....
each way you go, is crazy to me and a lot of us europians, I'ld say most
will never want to trade with you folks.
A lot of countries in Afrika these days are better of,
then the trailerpark living a lot of you hard working folks are condemned to.
Here in the netherlands shit aint getting better as well,
greed rules and will be the end of us all.
Sorry for my ...
A lot of love!
The Government should not be allowed to do anything or spend money unless it's voted on by we the people. IT is obvious that the people that made these decisions are not capable of clear thoughts.
29:55 wow I almost felt emotion from that.
This is sickening and heartbreaking. The US military has ruined these people's home for the foreseeable future. I don't really think it was all worth it, not for those innocents who suffered and continue to suffer, not only the loss of their home, but the loss of their health and that of their descendants and not worth it for the world, either. This is yet another group negatively impacted by American arrogance.
Only those at the very tippy top of the military know the true motives of their actions. For most enlisted men, they are lied or misled in believing that what is being done is for some good cause. In many ways they too are victims since many enlist to serve and protect their nations. I’d hate to be one of these men who come to the realization they unknowingly created such suffrage on others.
*suffering, not
*suffrage
Shit happens other countries have done similar things .
@@spearfisherman308 Doesn't make it right.
@@harrietharlow9929 depends on the context.
It’s crazy to think that people would do this. They were playing with power they had no idea what it would do. They were like a child who found their dad’s gun. I feel so bad for these people. Their entire culture was ripped apart .
1955 or 56 USS ESTES and another ship was at sea inside the perimeter of the testing of Hydrogen bomb blast. During that time of the the blast, the other ship that was between the Estes and Island was hit with a violent blast of wind on the side of the ship. The other ship tilted so far as it almost flipped over on its side but luckily went back upright. There was 5 or 6 airplanes that was flying into the Brite white mushroom cloud and coming out the other side and circling back into the mushroom cloud 4 or 5 times more. The guys from the Estes nicknamed those pilots Kamakazis because they were already doomed to die from radiation after that. During the blast the men on the Estes who were ordered to sit down on the deck and close their eyes and cover them with their arm saw for 3 to 4 seconds the bone in their arm. It was like having an xray. A couple miles away outside the blast perimeter was a Japanese Fishing Boat that was hit with flying debris from the blast due to wind shifting direction. The Fishermen later discovered what the blast was and demanded from the Japanese government monetary compensation. He believes this was the first of the Hydrogen bombs that were tested at sea.
My father and his ship mates were charged with the task of towing the vessels those that didn’t sink and cleaning them needless to say we have had our share of effects from this test our genetics were altered I feel bad for the families that were affected, I pray that this never happens again 😢
Amen!
Thanks for continuing to help shed the light on the atrocities that are committed by the U S government and other governments around the world...they truly affect us all
11:05 I had that very same radio years ago. Great little radio.
THAT'S REALLY ALL YOU GOT OUT OF THIS STORY?
19:58 surely you meant to say up until that point. The Tsar Bomba was by far the most powerful bomb ever detonated.
I think they meant as of 1 March 1954, Castle Bravo was the largest nuclear detonation, The Tsar Bomba was detonated on 30 October 1961
Tsar Bomba was designed to be a 100 megaton weapon. It was scaled back to 50 megatons because the Russian scientists were afraid it might ignite the atmosphere. At 50 megatons it was the same yield as Bravo. Nothing stronger has ever been detonated.
They are some beautiful people
This story is so sad
Fun fact: the Japanese captured the islands from the Germans during WW1, then ruled Bikini (along with the rest of the Marshall's) from 1914 until the US captured the islands.
Couple of factual errors. The 1949 Soviet bomb was a fission bomb, not a "hydrogen" or fusion bomb. The Castle Bravo bomb was the most powerful bomb up to that time but was far exceeded by the Soviet Tsar bomb at 50Mt
58 Mt
LAYER CAKE.
That's another name for the Russian fission bomb.
Thing is, at the time, as US intelligence had to calculate the yield from seismographic information & atmospheric particle collection, they reasonably but wrongly concluded the Russians had detonated a small hydrogen bomb.
The power of the "Tsar-bomb" corresponded to the calculations, the power of Castle Bravo was the result of a misunderstanding of the physics of the process.
Also, Castle Bravo wasn't a «bomb», it was a “device”.
@@runlarryrun77
For the first Soviet bomb with a fusion boosting. (РДС-6с/RDS-6s, 400 Kt, 1953)
Soviet scientists were ahead of American scientists in the use of lithium deuteride (solid substance) instead of liquid deuterium.
Thank you Greenpeace for everything you did
I hide my shame by covering my face as tears and sorrows emerge within. I was born in 1942 and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that because of all the testing during my lifetime, I too am radioactive. Sincerely I do remain at 79, Sentebey in USA.
My Grandfather was in the US Navy during WW2 and he was at Bikini Atoll when they were testing the atomic bomb. We have pictures of it somewhere
Mine also.
¨ We wanna go and fishing but we can´t😢¨💔
America needs to be held ACCOUNTABLE
Excellent documentary 😊😊😊
MY DAD WAS ON THE USS GARCIA, THE SHIP WAS THERE MY DAD DIED AT THE AGE OF 43,RIP DAD
Source?
A real life "Atomic Café" story. A must see for all.
Everyone needs to hear the island peoples story.
I TOTALLY AGREE......
Some say a pineapple dropped from a cargo ship near an island in the Bikini Atoll area before testing.
The island had three palm trees.
The worst evils have been visited on humanity "for the good of mankind". You forgot to mention that on the ships that weren't sunk, there were animals that died agonising deaths so the military could see the effect of radiation on mammalian life. Man's wickedness knows no bounds.
30:44 The beautiful ship, Rainbow Warrior was sunk in Auckland Harbour NZ (a Nuclear-Free, peace-loving country) by agents of the french government (killing one person) to prevent it from protesting the french nuclear testing in the Pacific. How cowardly are the nuclear powers. The USA knew of this murderous plot, but refused to warn its allies, New Zealand, because it was frightened of NZs anti-nuclear stance. How craven is the USA in refusing to take a moral stance on sovereignty.
It's not really "man's wickedness" it's really just the "WHITE CHRISTIAN MAN'S WICKEDNESS" we're looking at here and everywhere you find this level of injustice...something to think about.
3 people died on the Rainbow Warrior that morning.
One of the best sources for references was the book Operation Crossroads: The Atomic Bomb Tests at Bikini Atoll by Jonathan Weisgall. I'd recommend that to anyone interested in this topic. I used it extensively in college for many of my papers.
7:03 'The russians have already detonated a hydrogen bomb.' This was a mis-edit. (and you can see the guy's later comments in the video to verify this)
Operation Crossroads was executed in 1946. Russia detonated Joe-1 (fission weapon) in 1949. Russia's first thermonuclear weapon was tested in 1953, the year after Ivy Mike.
Maybe the editors of this documentary mixed in the guy talking about Operation Castle (1954) instead at the wrong place in this documentary?
Sadly the real reason behind Operation Crossroads in 1946 was a piss fight between the US Army and the Navy. You can look up the actual history.
Shut your mouth warmongers
Goodness! A little artistic creativity with facts isn't new in documentaries pushing a narrative! This is more about shaping attitudes and invoking feelings than accuracy.
It never ceases to amaze me how our government has skrewed over so many Pacific Islanders. Shameful.
When she said they didn’t have a word for the poison. 💔💔💔💔💔
Yeah that hit hard. Those poor people and their children and children's children. They lost their land and their lives because of the decision made by someone of power.
I bet the soldier who said "THIS IS A GIFT FROM GOD" wouldnt be saying that now if he is still alive.
I found out about this bombing of there islands (late 40s ) when I went to a training school in Arizona we had alot of marshal Islanders and around there
First of all sound does not travel at the speed of light. Very few documentaries about nuclear tests get this right, they always mix in an artificial explosion sound that is not even remotely representative of what such an explosion would sound like. Second, at 14:57 they are inexplicably mixing in a video clip from the Baker shot (the more famous one from Operation Crossroads, exploded from under the water) before returning to the Able videos. (an airdrop)
Either way the horrific fact is that Operation Crossroads happened because of a piss fight between the US Army (then still in control of all nuclear weapons) and the US Navy. (which tried to prove that its fleet was not vulnerable to such weapons) It wasn't even yet about the even more horrific piss fight with the Soviets!
Actually the sound of atomic explosions does travel at the speed of light inside the fireball (the gamma radiation heats the air to white heat).
Good to know that's what motivated you to comment! Go eat your spinach
I think you missed the whole point of this video. Your argument about what, why where it was done is meaningless when it comes to the facts of what happened to these peoples and their lands, and the ongoing demise of what their later generations health conditions are.....
Thanks for that explanation! You are correct
@@johnjohnson7593 I appreciate that John!
Finally at atomic bomb doc that doesn't have some one quoting oppenheimer to get likes.
I am become meme, collector of likes
Nuclear testing was necessary. Sacrificing Bikini Atoll wasn't. There's desolate places they could've chosen.
You might be eating too much to wheat to thing nuclear testing was necessary. Stupid.
My dad was on enewitak when they tested those bombs. My brother does the logistics to help the people of the Marshalls effected by the bimbs
I can’t take this documentary seriously due to the errors. The filmmaker shows Crossroads Baker as Crossroads Able. One of their “experts” also implies that the USSR got the H Bomb before the USA.
One thing you should take seriously though, is the fact America we’re responsible for a great against these people. A wrong, that 75 years later they have still not put right.
errors are no reason to DENY the basic truths of our crimes against nature and humanity! Don't be childish /petty/complicit by not taking the actual crimes seriously!
the point of documentary is people not facts, but then again who I'm to judge.
My dad told me of his time on Enewetak atoll, I was fascinated
this is so evil and aint going lie i broke down watching this . i dont even know what to say lost for words but all can say this straight up evil its like they dont even care about these people and they are human beings and today these people still suffer why they should be able to get what ever they want and live a good life if possible and no thats not going to fix it but may help them some and 7 min lying to these people . i pray for justice for these people
This is the reality of racism right here.
@@AffirmativeArtsOnTheRoad that's not racism it's about how America exploiting every natural resources of this world
It was a genocide
@@thenotoriousgib_ was there culture or families destroyed nope.
@@AffirmativeArtsOnTheRoad I wasn’t racism because there were test in the Nevada desert had multiple test and the people suffering from the test were never compensated.
This tragedy breaks my heart. I know we were in an arms race, and it was real. If we didn't counter Soviet expansion/imperialism, who would have? I truly believe there is huge difference between autocracies and democracies, regardless of the flaws that still exist in democracies. We have much work to do. But look at what happened to the Soviet Union. It failed miserably, and it was catastrophic for it's people. It was not a stable system, and only time will tell if ours is stable in the long term as well.
With that said, WHY could we have not made better decisions about relocating these people? WHY could we have not chosen an uninhabited island or atoll to test on? At the very least, we owe these people some fertile land, and the basic knowledge to use it. Giving us fish everyday, does not bring meaning or happiness to our lives. Learning to fish and enjoying the rewards of that work, does. And the worst part, is that they already knew this, literally, t o begin with. It is because of us, that they lost this.
26:50 "area of acceptable fallout"?! Like ANYTHING was gonna stop these lunatics from dropping the bomb? Oooook....insane
Always found it interesting that you can hear the sound of the sound wave coming at you
It's just a fucking sound effect dropped in to add tension. You know this. I know this. Everyone knows this. We all know it's an editing technique. We all know you would see the explosion before you heard it.
Pointing this out isn't clever. Fucking shut up Mr Dunning - Kruger.
The wind blowing these fallout to all the pacific nations and eventually return to its owner nation as well.
The US Blew up Nukes on their own soil also. I don’t believe nuclear fallout is as devastating as publicly believed. Chernobyl and it’s surrounding area is being reclaimed by nature by plants and animals.
Where do you think the global rising cancer figures since the '50-s came from? It is denied in all tonalities, but it is crystal clear why your grand parents and uncles died ten years too early. Nuclear tests. What else?!
My dad was an atomic veteran and was there from 52-54
This is so heart breaking and infuriating! How could America do this? I love how im just learning about this at 42!! America only teaches its children the good things Americans do. We're bound to repeat this atrocity.
Tough break I bet. I felt the same when I found out about atrocities committed by British troops all round the world.
Hell of a wake up call, I know. Welcome to the other side.
@divinelyled3390..... Much Sooner than you (or anyone else) may think!!
Isn't that footage at 14:58 Baker shot, rather than Able?
Yes, but this is a greenpeace propaganda piece, they do not care about accuracy
And the responsible "human" beings all raise and say: "Wir haben es nicht gewusst."
there were a total of 67 A bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. 44 of them were on Enewetak Atoll… the balance on Bikini… you should do a story about Enewetak too…
There is no hiding place from the father of creation for those who hurt all man kind to save their own,🇯🇲
This was excellent.
look at the poor health of these people. this is a crime.
they have survived. many have not. you don't see the many that did not make it. and do not think things are over. the ocean will be poisoned for many years. that island has a spot, covered in concrete. but the radioactive waste is escaping into the ocean. how can one solve that problem? it is horrible. even if you support the americans, you will agree this is a complicated problem. what on earth is best?
Crime nowadays
Great word usage, INSIDIOUS
I support the USA, but that is really brutual, The US says the accident of the U.S.S liberty was brutual, but when they bombed a tribe with over 60+ bombs AND a nuclear bomb, they didn't do anything, like speak about yourself first before
They supposed to bomb themselves for getting involved in the soviet/german/pole/jew thing, they left in the 1770 and just left it on.. one for each state even micro city's like in utah
My grandma still alive and her husband worked on Bikini island he got radiation poison and died and she only got a little. But bikini island still pays her for that.. he was one of the engineers. But her stories are really wild like none believable
Wait, did they add ammo to the battle ships or were they too lazy to remove the existing ammo from a ship? Was Alec Baldwin in charge of set design that day? Why would "set props" have live ammo on board? SO... MANY... QUESTIONS
Are you being serious? If these tests were to test how a nuclear bomb would affect our fleet at sea, the ships need to be exactly as they would be in wartime...its not a hard concept to understand, yet no one seems to get it, or chooses to play stupid so they can display "wokeness".
They are beautiful people in every way.
I'm a U.S. Navy Vet living in Canada, I'm 67. Folks here ask me, from time to time, what I really think about the States. I tell them overall I'm ashamed of what the States stands for militarily and politically. Other then that there is no universal health care like we have here in Canada. Most world governments don't give a rats ass about their citizens or any one else's. Just the way of the world.
Canuckastan is a frozen, barbaric wasteland ruled by Oligarchic Neo-Feudalists.
3:35 😂 That's Frank Perconte's voice when the Shermans show up in episode 2 of Band of Brothers.
Forget the islands.
The Nevada Test Site.
(65 miles north of Las Vegas.)
On January 27, 1951, nuclear testing at the NTS officially began with the detonation of Shot Able, a 1-kiloton bomb, as part of Operation Ranger. Between 1951 and 1992, the U.S. government conducted a total of 1,021 nuclear tests here. Out of these tests 100 were atmospheric, and 921 were underground. Test facilities for nuclear rocket and ramjet engines were also constructed and used from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.
100 Above Ground! In NEVADA!
Can't you tell?
We've been in a nuclear winter for decades.... (global warming my ass)
That's not counting all the other nation's tests.
Why "forget the islands"? Are the people there not white enough to matter in your mind?
You lost me at "fOrGeT tHe iSlAnDs"
Why is this never a topic when it comes to climate change discussion? Im sure this has had a pretty significant impact
Its a bit messed up how the Americans celebrated their victory like that. I mean a lot of people died and shouldn't we grieve for all the lives that were lost?
I may sound a bit stupid in this comment but just saying
The native inhabitants were overgrown test 🐁 🐭 mice. All the military generals never brought their families to the “clean island” of course not.
Utter depravity! And white women sexualizing the "Bikini" bathing suit adds insult to injury!
Reading thru the various remarks in here neither were the Americans involved spared.
War is blind, the radiation wasn't selective.
The googles provided didn't shield their bodies from cancers that ensued.
there were a total of 67 A bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. 44 of them were on.Enewetak Atoll…
This documentary has been very hard to watch. Seeing what those people have gone through over the decades is incomparable and disheartening in the truest form. American Might huh…
The sailors aboard the ship my father was on in the Pacific did not celebrate the news of Hiroshima. My father said it became very quite in the chow hall after the announcement,
How totally irresponsible. Just a lesson how deadly it is to have people in charge that don’t have a clue to what they are doing.
Ehm, small fact. They really had no idea about the radiation damage. There had been no earlier bombs. They underestimated the long term effects.
There is a seperate video on that H-bomb that contained a lot of Lithium. They had no idea what the Lithium would do. To their surprise, it had a huge impact. So the men in the measuring bunker were shocked. Six yards of concrete moving, like it was cardboard. Get out of there. And they sent... a helicopter. Great, in highly radioactive dust, they sent a helicopter. Bad idea. How about a truck?
@VoorNam There was previous bombs dropped, they dropped a bomb in Japan and killed lots of innocent people there too, The murders on the Marshal Islands happened in the 1950s!
@@voornaam3191 Bullfuckingshit. They knew after Hiroshima. Why do you think they did it far, far away from U.S. soil? They Hoffman k we. Why were they planning for the wind to be blowing away from the people? Because the forgetfulness knew, that's why.
It puzzles me how come the animals don't have any problems with radiation. Does radiation only affects people?
Are you sure they don’t ?