I think it's safe to say that we've all seen a
movie about a mad scientist, who was willing to experiment on humans for the
alleged "greater good" of humanity. Of course, something always went
wrong. The scary thing is that there are such mad (insane) scientists
all over the world today. Then there's the evil and crazy government
officials who support them. In fact, most of mainstream society has gone
insane. I just don't understand how anyone could consider other human
beings so worthless as to detonate nuclear bombs in their homeland. I've
recently been researching the evils of nuclear testing, and the horrifying
consequences of such testing upon innocent people--it is a great evil indeed!
Bloodthirsty Killers Name 1954 Super Bomb “Bravo”
Photo to Right: Thermonuclear bomb "Bravo" is detonated. It was 1000 times stronger than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. The inhabitants of the Marshall Islands are still greatly suffering today.
I'll bet the families of all the dead victims aren't shouting "Bravo"! How would you like to fear eating radioactive tuna for decades to come?
"One of the most tragic examples of the dangers from nuclear testing is the legacy from the "Bravo" Test on Bikini atoll in 1954. The US military failed to warn and evacuate people on nearby Pacific islands who were directly downwind of the radioactive fallout. Children played in the 'atomic snow' from the radioactive cloud which passed above them, completely unaware of the dangers. Since then the islanders have been relocated a number of times because their homes are still contaminated. They cannot eat local produce. People are still suffering from cancers and ill health from the radiation. There have been high rates of stillbirths, and what the islanders call 'jellyfish babies' which die soon after birth because of the dreadful deformities resulting from exposure to radiation. No independent scientific team has been permitted to undertake a thorough investigation of Moruroa, and no independent health assessment of the people of French Polynesia has been permitted. However, brief investigations have revealed deep cracks and fissures and evidence of subsidence on the atoll. Moruroa is like a large water-permeable and unregulated radioactive waste dump, and many scientists believe radioactivity is already leaking into the lagoon and surrounding ocean. As the atoll ages and suffers more blasts from nuclear tests, it becomes even more vulnerable to leakage. If Moruroa were to fracture or break up, long-lasting, high-level radioactivity from over 120 nuclear tests could leak or spill into the Pacific ocean causing incalculable and irreparable harm to the marine environment and local health." -SOURCE
What if that were your family suffering? What if that were your son being born deformed, or your daughter dying weeks after being born because of radiation exposure? Why didn't the U.S. government perform their nuclear tests way out in the deserts of Nevada? It's because the American people would not have tolerated it, and politician's heads would have rolled. So our leaders decide to take advantage of some poor islanders instead, who cannot defend themselves against tyranny and cruelty. We have blood on our hands as Americans for allowing our government to do this great evil. Our money paid for that bomb. Our government bombed that island in our name. Oh how foolish and evil are the hearts of men. I can't help but think of a Scripture verse here, "There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men." Who do we think we are to afflict the poor, and kill them, and cause them to suffer atrocious health problems for centuries to come--all because we needed to test a nuclear bomb? What if someone did that to our homeland? We would declare an all out war! The problem is that most people in prosperous nations think they're better than the remainder of the population. They'd never admit it; but their walk talks louder than their talk talks.
God hates hands that shed innocent blood (Proverb 6:17). Those poor islanders had no idea what the United States was about to do to them. We lied to them concerning the after effects of such a devastating bomb...
"Six Islands in Bikini were vaporized by the tests. Enewetak, and Rongelap atolls are still uninhabited due to high levels of radiation. A thyroid study conducted by Japanese physicians in 1994-1995 confirmed hundreds of thyroid tumors among Marshall Islanders from islands throughout the Republic. This led U.S. Congressional leaders to comment in 1994 that the thyroid cancer rate in the Marshall Islands was 100 times higher than anywhere else in the world. The radiological illnesses in the Marshall Islands include thyroid cancer, breast cancer, stomach cancer, cancer of the brain, cancer of the liver, cancer of the ovary, and cancer of the bone." -SOURCE (Eldon Note, Mayor, Bikini Atoll Local Government, 2001 World Conference against A & H Bombs, Hiroshima).
What monsters!
Mankind is Destined for Self-Destruction
if God Doesn't Intervene!
Photo Left: Operation Crossroads Baker.
NUCLEAR TESTING FIFTY YEARS IS ENOUGH
Since the first nuclear test at Alamagordo, New Mexico in July 1945, the five nuclear weapons states, the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and China have conducted 2,035 nuclear tests. Every test, costing up to US$70 million each, has helped to add new generations of weapons to arsenals of the nuclear states. Even with the end of the cold war, nuclear testing continues, a reminder that the nuclear arms race is not over.
STOP ALL NUCLEAR TESTING NOW
In November 1990, Russia declared a moratorium on nuclear weapons testing. In April 1992, France also announced a moratorium on nuclear testing. In the latter half of 1992, the United States joined the moratorium, which also forced the United Kingdom to join (it uses the US test site at Nevada). Since 1992 China has been the only country conducting nuclear tests.
However, in June 1995 the newly elected French President, Jacques Chirac, announced that France would break the moratorium and begin a series of eight nuclear tests at Moruroa atoll in the South Pacific starting in September. Preparations for those tests are now underway. France is conducting these tests in order to develop new nuclear weapons and retain a nuclear capability well into the next century.
As with many facts about nuclear weapons, the details about nuclear testing have been kept very secret by all five nuclear powers. The following figures are based on known public information.
"On the tenth
anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, I was standing at a public meeting in
Kiev, Ukraine, listening to the story of one of the firemen employed to
clean up the site after the explosion. These workers took huge doses of
radiation during this task, and their story is a terrifying one. About
600,000 men were conscripted as Chernobyl `liquidators' [also called
bio-robots']: farmers, factory workers, miners, and soldiers -- as well as
professionals like the firemen -- from all across Russia. Some of these men
lifted pieces of radioactive metal with their bare hands. They had to fight
more than 300 fires created by the chunks of burning material spewed off by
the inferno. They buried trucks, fire engines, cars and all sorts of
personal belongings. They felled a forest and completely buried it, removed
topsoil, bulldozed houses and filled all available clay-lined trenches with
radioactive debris. The minimum conscription time was 180 days, but many
stayed for a year. Some were threatened with severe punishment to their
families if they failed to stay and do their duty.
These `liquidators' are now discarded and forgotten, many vainly trying
to establish that the ill health most have suffered ever since 1986 is a
result of their massive exposure to radiation. At the Centre for Radiation
Research outside Kiev, there is an organization of former liquidators. This
group reports that by 1995, 13,000 of their members had died --almost 20
percent of which deaths were suicides. About 70,000 members were estimated
to be permanently disabled. But the members of this organization are the
lucky ones. Because many former liquidators are now scattered throughout
Russia, they neither have the benefit of the organization's special
hospital, nor of membership of a survivor organization. They are known as
the `living dead.'
"Thank you master of ceremonies.
Honored guests, distinguished ladies and gentlemen. I appreciate this
opportunity to say a few words on behalf of my brothers and sisters from
Rongelap, Ailingnae, and Rongerik atolls.
I
wish there were no nuclear weapons; but war is an inevitable fact of life.
I am not a pacifist, because sometimes we must defend ourselves in war.
If we don't, then we will be enslaved by tyrants. Unfortunately,
mankind is inherently evil and will always go to war. I wish it were
not so; but history has repeated itself enough times for us to know that
mankind is prone to self-destruction. Nations are always attacking
each other, and so war continues. If China and Russia have nuclear
bombs, then so must we.
The crazy idea that all the nations of the world will abandon their nuclear
weapons just isn't plausible. However, nothing justifies what we did to
those poor islanders in the Marshall Islands with our nuclear bombs. We
have no right to carelessly destroy life. Millions of tons of ocean
life, coral, and animals were utterly destroyed in the 1954 Bravo blast by
itself. We read in 1st Corinthians 10:26, "For the earth is the
Lord's, and the fulness thereof." Are we being good stewards of
God's creation when we continually nuke His creation and irresponsibly destroy
so much of it?
