{"id":30449,"date":"2018-02-02T07:01:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T12:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30449"},"modified":"2018-02-02T07:01:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T12:01:41","slug":"one-typhoon-away-from-full-breach-us-nuke-test-dome-leaking-fatal-radiation-into-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30449","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;One Typhoon Away From Full Breach&#8221; &#8211; US Nuke-Test Dome Leaking Fatal Radiation Into Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-02-01\/one-typhoon-away-full-breach-us-nuke-test-dome-leaking-fatal-radiation-pacific\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">&#8220;One Typhoon Away From Full Breach&#8221; &#8211; US Nuke-Test Dome Leaking Fatal Radiation Into Pacific Ocean<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_default_style\" data-a2a-icon-color=\"#222\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Before the 1970s, the United States and other nuclear-armed countries conducted more than 500 atomic weapons tests in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>During these tests, radioactive debris and gases were flung up into the atmosphere and traveled around the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/marshall_islands_nuclear_bomb_cc_img.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41882\" src=\"https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/marshall_islands_nuclear_bomb_cc_img-1024x666.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/marshall_islands_nuclear_bomb_cc_img-1024x666.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/marshall_islands_nuclear_bomb_cc_img-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/marshall_islands_nuclear_bomb_cc_img-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/marshall_islands_nuclear_bomb_cc_img-600x390.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/marshall_islands_nuclear_bomb_cc_img.jpg 1500w\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stated that people around the world have had exposure to radioactive fallout from these nuclear tests. Even today, radioactive fallout is present in many parts of the world, but in small amounts.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 2000s, the CDC released a global radioactive fallout report and found that<strong><em> any person living in the\u00a0US since 1951 has been \u201cexposed to some radioactive fallout, and all of a person\u2019s organs and tissues have received some exposure.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The costs associated with nuclear tests for any country have been quite devastating for surrounding communities. Take, for instance, the\u00a0Enewetak Atoll, a large coral\u00a0atoll of 40 islands in the Pacific Ocean, where the U.S. government detonated 30 megatons of weapons \u2013 equivalent to 2,000 Hiroshima blasts \u2013 between 1948 and 1958.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>In total, sixty-seven nuclear bombs detonated\u00a0on Enewetak Atoll and Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Beginning in 1977, more than 8,000 people worked to clean up the Marshall Islands, shifting 110,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil and debris into a blast crater.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atomic-veterans-cap-building.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41886\" src=\"https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atomic-veterans-cap-building-1024x612.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atomic-veterans-cap-building-1024x612.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atomic-veterans-cap-building-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atomic-veterans-cap-building-768x459.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atomic-veterans-cap-building-600x359.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atomic-veterans-cap-building.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This thirty-foot-deep crater is called the Runit Dome, on Enewetak Atoll, also called \u201cCactus Dome\u201d or locally \u201cThe Tomb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ebc01733f4648c5303c4a61796971d92-1024x914.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41887\" src=\"https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ebc01733f4648c5303c4a61796971d92-1024x914-1024x914.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ebc01733f4648c5303c4a61796971d92-1024x914.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ebc01733f4648c5303c4a61796971d92-1024x914-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ebc01733f4648c5303c4a61796971d92-1024x914-768x686.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stockboardasset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ebc01733f4648c5303c4a61796971d92-1024x914-600x536.jpg 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"446\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The dome of death spans 350-feet across with an 18-inch concrete cap covering radioactive debris\u00a0from 12-years of U.S. government nuclear tests.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One Typhoon Away From Full Breach&#8221; &#8211; US Nuke-Test Dome Leaking Fatal Radiation Into Pacific Ocean Before the 1970s, the United States and other nuclear-armed countries conducted more than 500 atomic weapons tests in the atmosphere. During these tests, radioactive debris and gases were flung up into the atmosphere and traveled around the world. 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