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Test site activity sparks fears of more nuclear blasts

Satellite imagery shows that Russia, China and the US are building roads
and other infrastructure in historic nuclear test sites, raising fears that
they could soon not be historic any more, and back in use.

A powerful piece of multimedia storytelling in the NYT offers a reminder of what that could
mean: raised levels of radioactive strontium-90 in teeth and bones,
off-the-charts levels of cancer, diabetes, stillbirth and miscarriage in
“downwind” populations near nuclear test sites, and a resumption of the
mad race to build ever bigger bombs that was supposed to end with the cold
war.

The US poisoned the lives and destroyed the homelands of the Marshall
islanders. The UK did similar in the Australian outback, and France in
French Polynesia. Some of those affected have received compensation. None
has ever had an official apology.

 Tortoise 24th June 2024

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/06/24/test-site-activity-sparks-fears-of-more-nuclear-blasts/

June 26, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | weapons and war