however he wasn't a member of the crew on the di go for model. we had thought that was the only boat exposed to radiation at bikini atoll. that's what they taught us at school but it wasn't true. we were shocked to discover that apart from the tiger for coolio model there were many other boats near the arts hall at the time. you started to do some research he and his students looked for fishermen who had been at sea near bikini asshole in 954. they handed out questionnaires in and around the fishing port of call and got almost $300.00 replies. the result came as a shock but the fisherman told her and his students directly contradicted the official version of events when the u.s. conducted its nuclear weapons test on bikini asshole the diago for kuti oamaru was just one of many japanese fishing boats subjected to radiation. is still the best known and is now on display in its own museum in tokyo. but it is only the tip of the iceberg in fact some $700.00 fishing boats experienced the same thing only a bikini asshole in addition to $23.00 men on board the di eager for. several 1000 other fishermen were also exposed to the radiation the japanese government has never publicly acknowledged or identified them or offered them any compensation. you know. we had no idea that a nuclear bomb was going to be tested there we only heard of. at it after we got back to port in japan more. color that then they are only to make the army war college we had enough drinking water on board but we used sea water to wash our car we thought only. begin to power my master the winds were very strong and the waves were huge and they so we were often soaked through many months to go off it in a. bikini you are orbiting and their thoughts rather than your need for a we were at bikini atoll for 40 or 45 days or can you not. see war movie what are. the who you think they are who cholera folks are very we got no information and no instructions from the government. no one said we should avoid the area because of nuclear testing. this. couldn't dirty the room with for a day we often went back there to fish later on. of course we also ate fish 3 times a day. including the entrails are still there and we later learned that the entrails get contaminated 1st you know in fact any form of rooms like a town. in maine 9542 months after the day go for the return to port a research vessel set sail its departure was carefully staged with a cheering crowd and szell. the japanese government sent this shell consumer group to take measurements at bikini atoll and met the spread of radiation. his samples were taken for a station is and fished dissected and scanned. many many festered high levels of radioactivity especially tuna tune in travel long distances contaminated specimens were found far from the atoll. radiation levels were also tested in fishing ports in japan. engineers and white gloves examined large numbers of fish with a geiger counters. this map reveals the geographical extent of the disaster the red dots mark way contaminated fish were caught the affected area was much larger than the dangerous zone demarcated by the united states it encompassed much of the philippines taiwan and japan. the authorities said contaminated fish could not be eaten entire catches with dumped into the sea the financial losses were huge. markets suddenly had no fish to sell people were scared of the radiation and of shortages of a dietary staple it was an unprecedented crisis. the fishermen demanded compensation from the government in the meantime the u.s. continued testing nuclear bombs at bikini atoll. japan saw mass demonstrations against nuclear weapons. radiation fallout came to be known as sheen all high the ashes of death. the n.t. nuclear movement was gaining support fast and the united states was getting worried . this was after all in the middle of the cold war. if your plan were to fall under soviet domination again for communism would be tremendous. to prevent this possibility of strong well built from. your plan is vitally important and necessary. in early december 954 a new government was installed in japan the us played a part in that under some of the 10th convicted war criminals and politicians who had served the militaristic regime before 945 were rehabilitated. under some of the 27 the new foreign minister mahmoud. appealed to the united states for $2000000.00 the money was to pay off and silence the fisherman at the same time many former high ranking officers were released from prison on parole demilitarised after world war $2.00 japan was to have an army again. the u.s. launched a propaganda campaign in japan extolling the virtues of atomic energy while disney was commissioned to make a series of cartoon film starring the ask him something amazing. the atomic age was born only the superpower which america has released from within the adams mark is not one but many giant. one is a warrior destroyer another is engineers seeking to provide quantities of energy to run the world machine. in 1955 the american traveling exhibition atoms for peace was shown in more than 20 cities in japan including hiroshima and nagasaki as the u.s. and the soviet union embarked on their decades long nuclear arms race more than a 1000000 people visited the exhibition marveling at the many peaceful uses of nuclear technology. the ted tell no tales and so the silence of the grave. descended over the horrors of hiroshima and nagasaki the suffering of the survivors was forgotten the tragedy of the fisherman harmed by radiation at bikini atoll was found in no history books . intense propaganda on behalf of our friend the asem drowned out attempts to commemorate the victims of atomic mind. radioactivity is a physical phenomenon that can both kill and cure. it was discovered by early because and further research by pierre and murphy clearly. killie's with the 1st to use the term radioactivity in order to describe certain properties of the elementary adium which they had just discovered. this excess of radium in the early 20th century had mainly to do with its use in medicine it was above all the curies and in particular pierre curie you advanced the research no. henry back around one forgot some radium in powder form in his waistcoat pocket for a few hours he then said to pierre curie how odd there's a burn on my skin exactly where the packet of radium had been arguing yes when one of your q e. among the simply cute you'll get because it's so cute he himself tied a sachet with radium salts to his left for. a kind of burn appeared there too and it left a scar or you just don't see it. in $901.00 becker elling curie published an article in which they described how radium rays cause skin burns. because they need deep silk to buya. you know if you get more back the same time industries started to get interested in the fact that radium glows in the dark well it was marie curie who had observed this shortly after the discovery of radium. she wrote about the pretty bluish light. not only excuse me did radiance capacity to glow was soon harnessed to make luminous paint that enable one to see in the dark even unison committed to welcome the. only girl to go see this story of the radium girls is one of the 1st known cases of cancer caused by ionising radiation and these young women and girls painted the faces of watches and alarm clocks with the radioactive luminous paint of a point you know they were told to use their lips to create a narrative to their brushes so they could paint fine lines you see it's easier and faster to. say oh pete. they did that and of course these particles of radium would stick to their lips which caused an otherwise very rare kind of chuma of the jaw bone and the tumors were enormous the girls had been poisoned by the radium you know and the consequence was meant to larry a pleasure so what that means is that they're born american which produces red and white blood cells and platelets stopped working and it killed the movie before so young ones in $192075.00 of the women sued their employer the united states radium corp it was clear that the company knew about the danger because the engineers in charge of the girls had taken measures to protect themselves. the case never made it to trial. there was an out of court settlement instead use. as so waffen in the united states the matter was sorted out with a bit of money because the women were poor they and their families said good it's better than nothing we'll take the cash and keep quiet like to see you carry on the overconcern you westerdale. like you he don't get to see the pierre curie died in 1906 in a traffic accident much later in 1905 when he was to be repaired in the pantheon he was exuberant when his coffin was opened a cloud of radon a skate showing just how contaminated he had been likened to me if he hadn't died in an accident it's clear he would eventually have died as a result of the radiation exposure just as marie curie did it because it comes from these your idea of it was you. women men and children were photographed and filmed from all sides shortly after the allied occupation of japan in 1945 the united states undertook a large scale medical investigation into the survivors of you know shima and nagasaki they wanted to see what effect the atomic bombs had had especially barratry was established to analyze the impact of radioactivity on the body note it was a lab and not a hospital it offered no treatment to the survivors they were only observed and studied the victims were downgraded to guinea pigs. these file cards bearing handwritten annotations represent irradiated individuals and their elements. it's a horrendous archive of cruelty and immorality coolie registering skin diseases detached retinas menstrual irregularities hair loss any mia tumors diarrhea and vomiting among many other illnesses and death the data was not published either in japan or the united states. in 1946 the united states launched a series of nuclear weapon tests. one aim was to study the effects of radiation on troops military equipment and the environment the program continued into the 960 s. . our use in operation hard power. and 958. and i went through 28 different tomic weapons testings. operation hall attack included high altitude and underwater detonations at sites in and around the marshall on. the 1st took place on april the 28th and the last on august the 18th 958 they were 35 tests in a c 3 days. one of them was and called brother shot it was a big boom and then it broke through and there was a ship set not there and it just kind of broke up broke into and looked like a little toy flying through the air we were sideways to the to the blast now this aircraft carrier. and when it hit our ship it crinkles around like a piece of tenfold and if it rolled $49.00 degrees everybody thought we were going over going over they had a worst out system going on but i think the worst system was just put radiated water back on the ship from there and when i was down in the in the elevator pit there they came around with geiger counters and they said get your butt out of there it's really radiated it's hot in there so i got out of there and i had to go to the decontamination station take off all your clothes and showered check your fingernails geiger counters. it was called to teach they were all named after trees and when they went off. with your back turned it was it was hot enough to scorch the back of my uniform you had to put your arms and hands over your eyes you could see the bones and your eyes and your arms and you could see the bones and the guy in front of you if you look in of there. after the i got radiated and my 3 times the monday and a whole bunch of really got sick and sick bay they just it all there's a little bit of flu going around here down don't worry about it and they give you what they call apc's all-purpose capsules that i think of aspirin they told us there was no risk there you were close and you didn't have enough radiation the cuz you need these days or anything like that or any harm. there was low level radiation. you just person would never go away. the u.s. military consistently downplayed the effects of the radiation on its personnel. much like the leadership of the soviet union which in 1986 sent in teams equipped with nothing more than called the filter guests and lead vests to clear away day briefly in the radioactive hell of. before long these men when known simply as the liquidates his. seat. when we look at these images now if they only convey a vague impression of what happened to come it's like watching a movie chernobyl was an enormous problem because nobody had imagined that an accident at a reactor could take on the dimensions of a nuclear war. and it was like nuclear war the radiation and fallout was equivalent to dropping 500 atomic bombs it was immense you can see the united nations report said 50 people died as a direct result and estimated there would be 4000 cases of cancer that would mean chernobyl killed if you were people then died in road accidents across the van u.s.s.r. in a single day today more than 80 percent of all children in belarus are believed to be sick in fact the true figure is closer to 90 percent for chernobyl the rate of illness was more like they've teen or 20 percent adults also manifest a greater vulnerability to disease they get sick more easily and more often today's adults were the sick children of chernobyl now they are the sick adults of chernobyl. the us will do quite a population of dello russo is shrinking the ratio of deaths to births has doubled before chair noble there were 60 deaths per $100.00 births in valorous now it's $120.00 deaths per 100 births that's a fact the population is getting sicker and sicker but there is no acknowledgement that that's caused by radiation yet there are extremely disturbing cases and late 2017 at a school in minsk these 2 children suffered heart attacks within a few days of each other out of the blue and if you 210 year old girls died. when you know for mr for there's no information as to the causes at least not yet but as far as i know the government responded to these deaths by instituting mass screenings of children full to identify those at risk does this because he knew congenital defects play a major role. during the development of the heart in a fetus the radiation can lead to valve disorders before me that can cause arrhythmia and many other kinds of heart disease we need. to be among the chernobyl liquidators the most common cause of death has been heart attack so that suggests a direct link between radiation and disease. in the fukushima disaster of 2011 and the ensuing radioactive contamination of the ocean gave the needed impetus to the demands of the fishermen hummed at bikini asil must have received his research. the slogan booking the nuclear disaster at booker shima gave us a jolt we mustn't ignore these things called what exactly happened at bikini atoll has still not been established if we just accept that there's a risk that that will be the case with book ashima as well. while the theory will move. beginning ticking know what are the must stop i stop thinking about what happened that bikini atoll phone. call then in 2014 i read in the newspaper about claims for damages against the japanese state because of what happened there. are now new for me to look around. so i started to study the matter and look for other people who had been affected so we could talk about it. i know. it's outrageous how the state has dealt with us. the japanese state has not treated us like citizens it has withheld documentation from the public for 60 years. this is what the fisheries agency published in february 25th teen. and gave to the members of parliament. all 95 pages have been redacted. for the wrong. group and. it's all blacked out and it's totally useless. to simply grotesque live. we have drawn attention to the fact that the government has tried to suppress the content of official documents so that's a serious offense the others are joining the show must go. in 201545 japanese fisherman who had been subjected to radiation at bikini atoll 6 decades earlier filed suit against the japanese state for withholding relevant records they demanded financial compensation for their medical expenses they want the truth to be told. i am hoping for a positive outcome that i can soon share with my former colleagues. when we were abandoned by the state it failed to protect us. kim in this. cycle we mustn't give up we must think of the people in fukushima and not leave them in the lurch the time may be passing but we still need to attain clarity. today nearly 30 lawsuits are pending in focus ema the central issue is the rights of children who are still being exposed to radiation and all the risk that entails to ending in focus sima the central issue is the rights of children who are still being exposed to radiation and all the risk that entails children's bones are particularly susceptible to damage. the plaintiffs are demanding the children be relocated so they can grow up in a place free of radioactive contamination. they accuse the government and the local authorities in fukushima of exposing their children to danger through negligence and willful misinformation. shouldn't go just. on here in this war on the number of cases of thyroid cancer in children has risen steadily but according to some experts that is not necessarily a result of exposure to radiation this. post is arduous screening and pocketbook are so small that i just greening is conducted every 2 years many children were diagnosed with the disease at the 1st screening 2 years later the number should have been lower but it wasn't there were 71 new cases you can't explain that away with statistics schooling of the most america and. these big. loon bites and great tanks contain more than a 1000000 tons of contaminated water. the water used to cool the reactors in fukushima immediately becomes highly radioactive the tanks will all be full sometime next year. the government has said it was considering releasing the water into the sea level could move to look into quick article or munich state my have a feeling the politicians want everything that has to do with the disaster to be erased and they are carrying on as if nothing happened we must remain alert to the danger to our country otherwise we are our last. days with. for. your life when it's no longer for big. it's your career when you're finally allowed to pursue it. it's your opinion when you can finally say it. is freedom more important than homeland. we need artists in exile living in berlin. 20. 30 minutes on d w. more than a 1000 years ago europe witnesses a huge construction. christianity for the established itself. both religious and secular leaders or eager to display their power. to trace because it's. 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