The issue of Bikini Atoll is detonating several nuclear devices in the Pacific Ocean. The natives of the island were told that it was the good of man to move and they could move back to the area in a few years. In 1948 the exiled islanders were placed on the island of Kili but the islanders were unhappy because they could not grow crops and fish. In the 1960s the US government declared the Bikini Atoll safe for the people but then in 1978 doctors discovered high level of radiation in the islanders. The leading cause of the issue is radiation left behind from the bombs because they can make an area uninhabitable for humans for hundreds of years. So if there was a nuclear war whatever human beings that survived would be killed off by high levels of radiation. from 1951-1958 the US government held more than 60 tests. Bravo nuclear bomb
Radiation Burn
Human-Environment-Interaction:
Nuclear tests were made on the Bikini Atoll Islands. Because of the testing nobody can live on these islands; radiation had consumed the land and had contaminated farm land, so no food can grow and the food that does grow is at high risk of being contaminated with radiation. The U.S. has forever changed the land and made the once livable area very unsafe and disrupted from its former natural beauty. The nuclear bomb test have set a life up for the people who used
to live on the islands and now their homes are destroyed and what they used to call home now a tragic place of poison, the new home of sarcophagus . By testing many people have lost their homes and can’t bring back what they lost. As well as culture has been lost, memories of past families and traditions now in the dust with other perishable items lost in the nothingness of the Marshall Islands and their people.
Mushroom cloud from the Operation Castle Bravo nuclear explosion in the Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
Current Issues
In 1994 the us took over the the Bikini islands and started the testing of the Bikini Atoll. The Bikini islands went from a tourism hot spot to an after bomb testing wasteland. The Bikini Atoll has been affected forever for the bad of the environment and the people who live there. Many homes are still destroyed and some areas still contain radiation and are not livable. Still today the Islands are unlivable for animals and people. The U.S. gave millions of dollars to the Bikini Islands and others that were affected as well but it will never compensate for the loss of culture and history.
Bikini Atoll
Backround information of Bikini Atoll
The issue of Bikini Atoll is detonating several nuclear devices in the Pacific Ocean. The natives of the island were told that it was the good of man to move and they could move back to the area in a few years. In 1948 the exiled islanders were placed on the island of Kili but the islanders were unhappy because they could not grow crops and fish. In the 1960s the US government declared the Bikini Atoll safe for the people but then in 1978 doctors discovered high level of radiation in the islanders. The leading cause of the issue is radiation left behind from the bombs because they can make an area uninhabitable for humans for hundreds of years. So if there was a nuclear war whatever human beings that survived would be killed off by high levels of radiation. from 1951-1958 the US government held more than 60 tests.
Bravo nuclear bomb
Radiation Burn
Human-Environment-Interaction:
Nuclear tests were made on the Bikini Atoll Islands. Because of the testing nobody can live on these islands; radiation had consumed the land and had contaminated farm land, so no food can grow and the food that does grow is at high risk of being contaminated with radiation. The U.S. has forever changed the land and made the once livable area very unsafe and disrupted from its former natural beauty. The nuclear bomb test have set a life up for the people who used
to live on the islands and now their homes are destroyed and what they used to call home now a tragic place of poison, the new home of sarcophagus . By testing many people have lost their homes and can’t bring back what they lost. As well as culture has been lost, memories of past families and traditions now in the dust with other perishable items lost in the nothingness of the Marshall Islands and their people.
Current Issues
In 1994 the us took over the the Bikini islands and started the testing of the Bikini Atoll. The Bikini islands went from a tourism hot spot to an after bomb testing wasteland. The Bikini Atoll has been affected forever for the bad of the environment and the people who live there. Many homes are still destroyed and some areas still contain radiation and are not livable. Still today the Islands are unlivable for animals and people. The U.S. gave millions of dollars to the Bikini Islands and others that were affected as well but it will never compensate for the loss of culture and history.
Websites Used:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/02/bikini-atoll-nuclear-test-60-years
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1446783/
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