A Toll on Bikinis

Tonight I watched part of a show on the Science channel about the Bikini Atoll.  No, this is not some sort of weird place to pay taxes on swimwear; it’s an island.

Apparently the US military decided it needed to do some serious nuclear bomb research and somehow decided on this area.  There was film of commanders in khaki talking to the natives, explaining how the experiments were for the good of everyone, so they should pack up and leave their home.

And leave they did.  More film was shown of the natives packing up and getting onto troop carriers.  For the greater good.

The army stated that they could take out every ship in the area.  The navy stated that they could survive a nuclear blast.  With a competition like that, there was no reason not to nuke that area to Kingdom Come.

The bomb was dropped from a plane.  The outcome was disappointing, in that the bomb missed its target.  With the pressure of 750 cameras watching, the second attempt was guaranteed to succeed (whatever that meant).  This time the bomb was suspended ninety feet under water, with all sorts of decommissioned and other ships floating about.

The bomb did largely what it was supposed to do (blew up), which was caught in all its glory on film.  When the dust had cleared, only twelve of the navy’s ships had been sunk.  I guess the navy won (sort of).

Since some of the ships weren’t sunk, it was decided to clean them up.  Now here’s where it gets really weird, in case it hadn’t gotten really weird yet: it was decided to clean the ships up.  After a nuclear blast, it was decided to clean the ships up with what amounted to household cleaners.  To make it even more weird, they used radioactive seawater to help in this task.

On one hand it was easy to see the stupidity inherent in this little adventure.  But at the same time, they showed film of the navy crews, holding what appeared to be geiger counters to people and things.  This tells me someone had to know that there would be radioactive fallout present.

The program cut to a few veterans today, describing their cancers and the fight to get the government to take care of them with the cancers.

Back in Bikini, some of the natives returned home.  A while later they all turned up hot (radioactive) when tested.  More shock and awe, no doubt.

Strangely enough, the show centered on some researchers and divers who were going to survey the area and check out the sunken ships, if it was safe.  Suffice it to say they had radioactivity checks all over the place.

It’s amazing what you discover while watching the Science channel on Sunday nights.

Wasn’t it last week that I posted about the CIA and FBI doing experiments with LSD, syphilis, and mind control on unwitting subjects?

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Q. What kind of a government does experiments on its own people with LSD, syphilis, mind control, torture, electroshock therapy, child abuse, and nuclear weapons?

A. Ours.