Hawaiʻi Is In The Crosshairs Of A Dangerous Nuclear Policy
Ellen Thomas
Eric Stinton: Hawaiʻi Is In The Crosshairs Of A Dangerous Nuclear Policy
Invoking the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War – a group of doctors which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 – as well as the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Granoff answered the question, How can you protect yourself from nuclear explosions: “They all agree: you can’t do anything.”
“In less than 1/1000th of a second, the heat of a nuclear bomb will be three times the heat on the face of the sun. Within 100 miles there will be winds of 600 mph, a fireball will be created that will evaporate everything in that range. The bomb used at Hiroshima was 15 kilotons, 15,000 tons of TNT. Now we have bombs in the megaton range, a million tons of TNT. We’re talking about immeasurable suffering, immeasurable destruction. There is no defense. There is no place you can hide.”
Stanford professor Scott Sagan outlined five principles to make nuclear policy “more just and effective:” prohibit the use of nuclear weapons against civilians;
--never use nuclear weapons against a target that can be destroyed by conventional weapons;
--don’t use nuclear weapons in response to enemy attacks against our own civilian populations;
--don’t use nuclear attacks as a response to biological or cyber attacks;
--work in good faith toward eventual nuclear disarmament.
And pray to the Gods for "Good Luck" against the war mongers of the world. (Ann's comment)
And on Hawaii from Jim Albertini Malu 'Aina Center For Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box 489 Ola'a (Kurtistown) Big Island, Hawai'i 96760
Phone 808-966-7622 Email j...@malu-aina.org Visit us on the web at www.malu-aina.org
Very few people are aware of Hawaii's nuclear
contamination (plutonium) from atmospheric testing. Other
nuclear contamination in Hawaii includes several thousand
55 gal drums of radioactive solid waste dumped off Oahu's
southern shores from refueling nuclear subs at Pearl
Harbor decades back. Millions of gallons of radioactive
waste have also been dumped into Pearl Harbor, and there
have been reports of nuclear weapon accidents on Oahu back
in the 60s and 70s where radiation was released. These
events are noted on pages 17-34 of the book "The Dark Side
of Paradise -- Hawaii in a Nuclear World" which can be
downloaded for free on the right side of our homepage on
our website www.malu-aina.org
Plutonium fallout found in
soil especially
on the windward side of Hawaii Island, and likely other
islands too, from atmospheric testing has gotten very
little attention!
Plutonium fallout from atmospheric testing -- US Atomic Energy Commission study. The US tested 12 nuclear weapons in the atmosphere at Johnston atoll, several hundred miles south west of Hawaii. Two additional weapons test blew up on the launch pad.
Some of the tests lighting up the sky at night could be seen from Oahu. On at least one occasion, the electromagnetic pulse from the blasts caused the street lights to go out in Honolulu.
The upper jet stream winds
travel west to east and the high rainfall appears to
have brought the plutonium fallout down. Papaikou on
the Big Island had the highest rainfall of any site
tested north or south latitude, and had the highest
level of Plutonium fallout.
See page 10 on the full report at the
link below that lists Papaikou on Hawaii island as the
highest reading of Plutonium contamination of any place
in the world tested.
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4689831
Instead of the lengthy full report at the above link,
below is link to a summary article published in Nature
Magazine in 1973.
- Published: 16 February 1973
in Nature Magazine shows soil sample taken at Papaikou
on Hawaii Island to have the highest level of
plutonium 239 of any place sampled north and south
latitude.
Global Inventory and Distribution of Fallout Plutonium
Nature volume 241, pages 444–445 (1973)Cite this article
Abstract
PLUTONIUM isotopes, Pu-239,240 and Pu-238 in particular, have been injected into the stratosphere as a result of atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, and have reached the ground as particulate fallout. An accidental stratospheric injection of Pu-238 in 1964 resulted in almost a three-fold increase in the global fallout of this isotope, and we now describe the accumulated fallout and geographical distribution from this unexpected release as well as from weapons testing.
www.nature.com › articles › 241444a0Global Inventory and Distribution of Fallout Plutonium | Nature
Feb 16, 1973 · PLUTONIUM isotopes,
Pu-239,240 and Pu-238 in particular, have been injected
into the stratosphere as a result of atmospheric nuclear
weapons tests, and have reached the ground
Jim Albertini
-- Jim Albertini Malu 'Aina Center For Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box 489 Ola'a (Kurtistown) Hawai'i 96760 Phone 808-966-7622 Email j...@malu-aina.org Visit us on the web at www.malu-aina.org
