Activists call for US apology for Marshall Islands nuclear tests

It isn't going to cure the cancer or birth defects. An apology doesn't make it all better, an apology isn't going to put chernobyl back together.

No one in government today had anything to do with those tests.

Just guessing, I really don't know.

Perhaps the Marshall Islands leadership is taking advantage of the strategic competition between the US and China.

https://apnews.com/article/china-new-zealand-environment-pacific-ocean-marshall-islands-ec40aeea0cd5da4a17d6f3012e5874ff

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3038082/marshall-islands-may-be-focus-us-china-competition-elections

sending radioactive material high into the atmosphere that fell on unsuspecting Americans downwind in Nevada, Arizona and Utah.

eventually gave birth to the film "The Amazing Colossal Man" (1957), the story of a US Army officer inadvertently exposed to test fall-out-- then mutating into a Goliath.

Stan Lee must have watched that movie and read about those tests. In May 1962, his Marvel Comics debuted "The Incredible Hulk," about a scientist who is also accidentally exposed to test fall out-- then mutating into a powerful brute.

There is still plutonium on the Chupadera mesa. Ranchers who lived miles from test site were not evacuated or warned of the test.

Or did the USG hush it up and ignore the problems it caused? I hope you and your family weren't affected by any of the radioactive residue.

And why the USG wouldn't warn and evacuate the ranchers or their cattle is mind-boggling and disturbing.

There was speculation that the Trinity explosion might ignite the Earth's atmosphere. And this wasn't some wild-eyed speculation from a crackpot. Edward Teller himself was the one who raised it as a possibility. They conducted a study, concluded that it "wasn't likely," and proceeded anyway.

If they thought the test detonation was potentially that dangerous, one would think the responsible thing to do would have been to evacuate the nearby ranchers. No doubt they didn't do that because of concerns about the project's existence becoming known, due to the secrecy surrounding the Manhattan Project. Even so, I'd think they could have come up with some pretext. They just didn't bother.

and was stationed in Europe. One day he was told to come with "them" and he was on a boat and watched an island blown up. He was so shaken by the event we started going to church.

It was in the Marshall Islands. My father was gone quite a lot while we were stationed there. I don't remember how long he was gone.

My suspicion is that they were lab rats. The army wanted to see the effects of radiation on people at various distances from a nuclear explosion.

he never exhibited radiation sickness in any way. But that may have been part of an experiment also.