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60 YEARS AGO
Contents of Nuclear Free Pacific and Marshall Islands
Nuclear Free Independent Pacific Day ('Bikini' Day) (Google search), which
marks the anniversary of the US 'Bravo' nuclear bomb detonation at Bikini
Atoll, March 1, 1954
Foregrounded: National Security
Archive Report
Illumination Day Google Search
Foregrounded: New Book, Nine Degrees North
Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day, Google Search,
Feb. 28, 2014
1.
Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific
Day: Time for action | Scoop ... www.scoop.co.nz
› Politics
22 hours ago - Tomorrow, 1 March, is Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day - the 60th anniversary
of the largest nuclear weapon detonation, the 'Bravo' ...
2.
Pacific.scoop.co.nz » Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific
Day ...
1 day ago - Tomorrow, 1 March, is Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day – the 60th anniversary
of the largest nuclear weapon detonation, the 'Bravo' ...
3.
Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific
Day | Aotearoa
Indymedia
Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific Day ... cloud spreading
dangerously across more than 18,000 sq km of the Pacific. ... When: 1 March 2014, 10am-1pm
4.
Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day - Converge
Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day ('Bikini' Day), 1 March, marks the anniversary
of the US
5.
Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day (Bikini Day)
01 March 2013
Apr 17, 2013 - Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day ('Bikini' Day), 1 March, marks the anniversary
of the US 'Bravo' nuclear
bomb detonation at Bikini ...
6.
Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day
Feb 27, 2009 - March 1st is Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day ('Bikini' Day) which marks the
anniversary of the US
7.
March 1: Nuclear Free & Independent Pacific
Day - NYC
Indymedia
Mar 1, 2007 - March 1: Nuclear Free & Independent Pacific Day. By Lucky Dragon. Call
out to all to mark Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day on ...
8.
REMEMBER Bravo, Moruroa - Nuclear-Free and Independent ...
Fri, Feb 28 - AUT University, WG1028, Sir Paul Reeves Building,
Upper St Paul St, Auckland City, Auckland, New Zealand 1142
REMEMBER Bravo, Moruroa - Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific Day. Public · By... Saturday, March 1, 2014. 10:00am until
1:00pm in UTC+13. Get Tickets.
9.
South Pacific Handbook - Page 124 - Google Books
Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=0918373999
David Stanley - 1993 - Oceania
On Nuclear- Free and Independent Pacific Day (1 March), a protest march
proceeds from Faaa to Papeete , to commemorate a
disastrous nuclear test on Bikini ...
10.
The long shadow of Bravo - Pacific Islands News Association
3 days ago - Sixty years ago, on 1 March 1954, Rinok Riklon was a
young girl living ....as Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day on 1 March each year.
60th Anniversary
of Castle BRAVO Nuclear Test, the Worst Nuclear Test in U.S.
Blast Had Far Greater Explosive
Yield than Expected, Equivalent to 1,000 Hiroshimas
Fallout from the Test
Contaminated the Marshall
Islands
Consequences of BRAVO Created
Outrage around the World and Pressure to Ban Nuclear Weapons Tests
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book
No. 459
Posted - February 28, 2014
The 15-megaton Castle BRAVO nuclear test, 1 March 1954, created a crater a mile wide and spread radioactive fallout around the world. The mushroom cloud rose to 130,000 feet and broadened to more than 25 miles in diameter. Excerpt from U.S. Air Force documentary film, Joint Task Force 7 Commander's Report,
Castle BRAVO spewed radioactive fallout around the world and
gravely sickened nearby inhabitants of the Marshall
Islands , then under a U.S. U.S. government claimed at the time that a shift
in the wind spread the fallout far from the test site, a recent U.S.
Included in this posting is a U.S. Air Force documentary film on
the Joint Task Force 7 commander's report on the Castle Series. It includes
footage of the BRAVO shot as well as coverage of the evacuation of U.S.
Documents in this posting include:
- Japanese government accounts of the Fukuryu Maru incident
- The May 1954 petition by Marshall
Islanders for an end to nuclear tests in the area
- U.S. Embassy Tokyo telegrams on
BRAVO's adverse impact for U.S.-Japanese relations
- Internal
- Decisions to delay the return of the
inhabitants to Rongelap Atoll because of unsafe conditions
- A comprehensive Defense Threat
Reduction Agency report from 2013 on Castle BRAVO exposing "legends
and lore" about the test
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Why and how exactly U.S. scientists miscalculated the yield
remains classified but what made the 15-megaton Bravo shot the worst nuclear
test in U.S. history is no secret. The device detonated on an islet in a coral
reef, producing massive levels of fallout that quickly reached the stratosphere
before falling to earth. It is worth comparing BRAVO to the most powerful
nuclear test ever, the Soviet Union 's
50-megaton "Tsar Bomba" of 30 October 1961. That test's radiological
consequences were far less severe because the "Tsar Bomba's" fireball
never touched the earth's surface producing significantly less fallout than
BRAVO. Historian of scienceAlex Wellerstein has
written that Castle BRAVO is a "cautionary tale about hubris and
incompetence in the nuclear age — scientists setting off a weapon whose size
they did not know, whose effects they did not correctly forecast, whose legacy
will not soon be outlived."[i]
While the "Tsar Bomba" was almost immediately known to
the world, the architects of the Castle test series worked in secrecy; the
Eisenhower administration wanted to keep words like "hydrogen" and
"thermonuclear" out of public discourse and only the fact that tests
would be held in the Pacific in 1954 went to the public. After the BRAVO shot
occurred, the AEC and the Defense Department sought to control what could be
known about the event. But the cat was out of the bag when the Fukuryu Maru crew returned to port which gave Washington
Until recently, an extensive collection of documents on nuclear
testing in the Marshall
Islands U.S. Marshall Islands Marshall
Islands
Unique non-U.S. government documents about the consequences of
nuclear testing in the Marshall
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THE DOCUMENTS
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1.
Largest Nuclear Bomb Victims Honored with Int'l “Illumination Day ...
Feb 20, 2014 - Former Marshall Islands
2.
60th
Anniversary of Castle BRAVO Nuclear Test, the Worst Nuclear ...
George Washington Univ...
7 hours ago - "Nuclear Victims Remembrance" at Majuro, Capital of the
Republic of the ... Washington, D.C., February
28, 2014 – Sixty years ago, on 1 March ..... "immediately"
after the test, but that did not occur until two days later, after ...
3.
Marshall Islands Memorial and Nuclear Victims Day: Information ...
March 1 The Republic of the Marshall
Islands is comprised of 29 atolls in the North Pacific Ocean . An atoll is a group of coral islands
that form a ring.
4.
Abolition
2000 » March 1, Nuclear Remembrance Day (Bikini Day)
Feb 20, 2014 - Commemorations in Marshall Islands, Japan and at the
Clinton ... bomb tested by the
United States, Nuclear Remembrance Day 2014 is a date to reflect on
our shared nuclear legacy, honour survivors
and victims, educate the ...
5.
Nuclear Remembrance Day
2014 - Marshallese Educational ...
Marshallese Educational Initiative,
Inc. ... detonation in the Marshall Islands
6.
Mar 1, 2014 - Encyclopedia - The Free Dictionary
Information about Mar 1, 2014 in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop ...March 1, 2014 ... Marshall Islands
7.
March Day definition of March Day in the Free Online Encyclopedia.
Alahamady Be (First new moon in March) Mar 1, 2014 · American Birkebeiner ... inMarch) Mar 1, 2014 · Marshall Islands
8.
March 1, 2014 - Encyclopedia - The Free Dictionary
Information about March 1, 2014 in the Columbia
Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, ... Marshall Islands
ILLUMINATION DAY
NINE
DEGREES NORTH is Released
February 20
6:20 2014
On March 1, 1954, the United States detonated the largest nuclear bomb
in its history on the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands
On March 1, 2014, people from
all countries are asked to join together online and in their communities to
educate, pay respect, and honor the Marshallese people affected by the Castle
Bravo test, which was 1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima
Klein and Bayouth's social media
campaign on Facebook for “Illumination
Dayâ€' hopes to collect
60,000 shares of their Illumination Day candle through March 1, 2014, in honor
of this yearâ€s 60th anniversary.
To help bring awareness to this
global issue, Klein and Bayouth, authored the novel “Nine
Degrees Northâ€', a coming-of-age story which chronicles the dramatic
“fall-outâ€' of six teenagers†lives while living on Bikini Atoll in 1969.
The book is available in both e-book and paperback here on Amazon.com.
Understanding firsthand how the
blast affected Marshall Islandâ€s residents, the authors felt compelled to
share their unique perspective with the world and write their novel as a
think-piece to bring awareness to the long-term physical and emotional
consequences and devastation left by nuclear bombs.
Read more at http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwbooks/article/NINE-DEGREES-NORTH-is-Released-20140220#GeiLWgLb5evtPbEX.99
ILLUMINATION DAY
GOOGLE SEARCH FEB. 28, 2014
1.
Largest Nuclear Bomb Victims Honored with Int'l “Illumination Day ...
Feb 20, 2014 - Former Marshall Islands
2.
Illumination Day | Facebook
Join the event as we honor & pay
respect to the Marshallese people, their culture
& the islands they call home by reposting this candle on March 1, 2014 ~ ... To Honor Victims of
Largest US Nuclear Blast - Now Thru 3/1/14 Illumination Day.
3.
Energy
– ABC Environment (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Australian Broadcasting...
(has related video). Stateline NT 28
Feb 2014 ... Youth gather in Marshall Islands
4.
Illumination Day - Evensi
On March 1, 1954, the United States detonated the largest nuclear bomb in its history on
the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands
5.
Main story page - Marshall
Islands JournalL
ww.marshallislandsjournal.com/Main-story-page.html
7 days ago - ... holiday in the Marshall Islands marking the day the Bravo hydrogen bomb ... This year's 60th
anniversary is being marked in Majuro — and other ... to reflect on the fact
that the US nuclear weapons test legacy has
left ... Read more about this in
the February 28, 2014 edition of the Marshall Islands Journal.
6.
Pacific Beat | ABC Radio Australia
Radio Australia
Updated 28 February 2014, 19:03 AEST.
Communities in central ... Illumination Daycampaign to highlight Marshallese nuclear legacy. Updated 28
February ...
7.
Illumination day Video - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h-GaA5fJwU
YouTube
Feb 4, 2014 - Uploaded by Michael Bayouth
Published on Feb 3, 2014. On March 1, 1954, the United States
8.
Marshall Islands News
9 NucNews
3 and 4, Pages 11469 - 11472 [FR DOC #: 2014-04409]; Veterans
Affairs ... Radio Australia
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