{"id":20008,"date":"2016-04-18T19:38:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T00:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20008"},"modified":"2016-04-18T19:38:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T00:38:06","slug":"a-world-war-has-begun-break-the-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20008","title":{"rendered":"A World War Has Begun. Break the Silence."},"content":{"rendered":"

A World War Has Begun. Break the Silence.<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, “Where is that?” If I offer a clue by referring to “Bikini”, they say, “You mean the swimsuit.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Few seem aware that the bikini swimsuit was named to celebrate the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. Sixty-six nuclear devices were exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 — the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for twelve years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bikini is silent today, mutated and contaminated. \u00a0Palm trees grow in a strange grid formation. Nothing moves. There are no birds. The headstones in the old cemetery are alive with radiation. My shoes registered “unsafe” on a Geiger counter. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Standing on the beach, I watched the emerald green of the Pacific fall away into a vast black hole. This was the crater left by the hydrogen bomb they called “Bravo”. The explosion poisoned people and their environment for hundreds of miles, perhaps forever.<\/span><\/p>\n

On my return journey, I stopped at Honolulu airport and noticed an American magazine called Women’s Health. On the cover was a smiling woman in a bikini swimsuit, and the headline: “You, too, can have a bikini body.” \u00a0A few days earlier, in the Marshall Islands, I had interviewed women who had very different “bikini bodies”; each had suffered thyroid cancer and other life-threatening cancers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike the smiling woman in the magazine, all of them were impoverished: the victims and guinea pigs of a rapacious \u00a0superpower that is today more dangerous than ever.<\/span><\/p>\n

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