Tag Archives: the Marshall Islands

The Climate-Nuclear Nexus: Two Key Threats Endangering Future Generations via The World Post

Posted on 2015/12/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Over the next two weeks, Heads of States are meeting in Paris to finally agree on a plan to curb climate change. Considering that climate change can exacerbate a range of interconnected transnational threats and crises that our generation faces … Continue reading →

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A ground zero forgotten: The Marshall Islands, once a U.S. nuclear test site, face oblivion again via The Washington Post

Posted on 2015/11/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A boy and his grandfather are fishing in the shallows off their tiny island, a dot of green in the sapphire eternity between Hawaii and Australia. The flash comes first, silent and brighter than the sun, from a four-mile-wide fireball … Continue reading →

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Exiled by nuclear tests, now threatened by climate change, Bikini islanders seek refuge in U.S. via The Washington Post

Posted on 2015/10/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

On the morning of July 1, 1946, a second sun rose over the remote Pacific island chain of Bikini Atoll. The world’s fourth atomic bomb had just been detonated over the area with an “unearthly brilliance that petrified observers,” wrote the Washington Post … Continue reading →

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The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene via Asia-Pacific Journal

Posted on 2015/07/21 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] The “protectorate” status of the Marshall Islands provided no protection for its citizens from the blast and radioactivity that left Bikini (and other islands?) uninhabitable for centuries to come? The U.S. referred to its test site in the northwest … Continue reading →

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This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste – and it’s leaking via The Guardian

Posted on 2015/07/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is a hulking legacy of years of US nuclear testing. Now locals and scientists are warning that rising sea levels caused by climate change could cause 111,000 cubic yards of debris to spill … Continue reading →

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Global Climate Change and Nuclear Abolition via Counterpunch

Posted on 2014/05/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Marshall Islands are filing lawsuits against the nine nuclear powers to get them to step up to their obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to negotiate total nuclear disarmament. Meanwhile Bill McKibben is gathering citizens for a rally in … Continue reading →

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Marshall Islands citizens take Nuclear fall out to the United Nations via Global Trabel Industry News

Posted on 2012/09/24 by yukimiyamotodepaul

September 13 was a historic day at the United Nations for the Marshall Islands. The Human Rights Council considered for the first time the environmental and human rights impacts of radioactive and toxic substances in nuclear fallout. And Marshall Islands … Continue reading →

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