{"id":1295,"date":"2012-01-29T00:19:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T00:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.wordpress.com\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2012-01-29T00:19:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T00:19:59","slug":"unincorporated-territories-a-huge-explosion-a-four-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1295","title":{"rendered":"Unincorporated Territories, a huge explosion, a four-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been doing research this week on the Unincorporated Territories, and former Unincorporated Territories, of the U.S.\u00a0 One of the former ones is the Marshall Islands in the Pacific.\u00a0 From 1946 to 1958, the U.S. conducted 67 nuclear detonations.\u00a0 The Atomic Energy Commission regarded the Marshall Islands as “…by far the most contaminated place in the world.”<\/em>\u00a0 One of those tests was the “Castle Bravo” hydrogen bomb detonation.\u00a0 It was 1,000 times more powerful than each of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.\u00a0 It contaminated more than 7,000 square miles of the surrounding Pacific, including some of the inhabited Marshall Islands.\u00a0 Reports of birth defects, cancer, and so on, in the area spiked quite measurably in the following years there.\u00a0 A question:<\/strong>\u00a0 After seeing what happened with the radiation at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, how could we possibly justify detonating a hydrogen bomb(s) in an area where there’s people — or, well, anywhere?\u00a0 Given factors like, oh I don’t know, maybe the: wind.\u00a0 Note:<\/strong> During a campaign tour down Rte. 95 in the West several years ago, we attended\u00a0a “Nuclear Weapons Free World Conference”<\/strong> at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.\u00a0 There was a Japanese man who did a one-act-play recounting the day we dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.\u00a0 He re-enacted it as a four-year-old, because he was there that day as a four-year-old.\u00a0 The same day his mother and father and siblings all died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been doing research this week on the Unincorporated Territories, and former Unincorporated Territories, of the U.S.\u00a0 One of the former ones is the Marshall Islands in the Pacific.\u00a0 From 1946 to 1958, the U.S. conducted 67 nuclear detonations.\u00a0 The …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}