Nuclear Colonialism: Hearing Indigenous Voices

Seventy years ago, on March 1, 1954, the United States tested the first deliverable hydrogen bomb, code named “Bravo”, at Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, home to the Marshallese people. Bravo was the largest U.S. nuclear test ever exploded, with a yield of 15 megatons, 1000 times larger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima (and way beyond the predicted yield of 6 megatons). It blasted a crater 1.2 miles in diameter into the atoll. The nearby islands’ inhabitants as well as U.S. military personnel stationed there for the test were exposed to the radioactive fallout, and subsequently evacuated. All […]

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Abolishing Nuclear Weapons – No Utopian Dream

By Leonard Eiger & Glen Milner January 28, 2024 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) went into effect three years ago (on January 22, 2021) making nuclear weapons illegal under international law for the first time in history. The TPNW is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons, with the goal of leading towards their total elimination. It specifically prohibits countries from producing, testing, acquiring, possessing or stockpiling nuclear weapons. It also outlaws the transfer of the weapons and forbids signatories from allowing any nuclear explosive device to be stationed, installed or deployed […]

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Kitsap County Billboard informs citizens of Nuclear Weapons stockpiled in their Back Yard

NEWS RELEASE: August 23,2023 Contacts: Glen Milner (206) 365-7865; Rodney Brunelle (425) 485-7030; Pat Moriarity, artist, cartoondepot@earthlink.net On August 21, and continuing for four weeks, a billboard will display the following paid advertisement: Did You Know, We’re only 15 Miles from the Largest Concentration of Deployed Nukes in the USA!  Let’s Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Included in the advertisement is a map showing the proximity of Gorst, Washington to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, homeport for 8 of the Navy’s 14 Trident nuclear-powered submarines.  The billboard is near the intersection of highways SR 16 and SR 3. The billboard serves as a public […]

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Blue Angels: ‘Adrenaline-Pumping’ for Some, Health Issues for Others

by Glen Milner, Originally published by SOUTH SEATTLE EMERALD ON AUGUST 4, 2023 The Blue Angels’ F/A-18E/F Super Hornets are returning to Seattle for a second year in this weekend’s Seafair air show over Lake Washington. Air show promoters are touting the newer jets as “heart-stopping,” “adrenaline-pumping,” and “the ultimate thrill-seeker’s dream come true.” The Super Hornets are 25% larger than the legacy Hornets they replaced, and they unleash a more powerful pressure wave than its predecessor. Records released through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show the potentially destructive force of the new Blue Angel jets. On Jan. 21, […]

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Hear the Hibakusha… Before it’s Too Late!

Introduction by Leonard Eiger, Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action Testimony by Ms. Tokie MIZUNO, Hibakusha of Hiroshima, as recorded on May 5, 2010 at First United Methodist Church, Seattle, Washington Seventy eight years ago, on August 6, 1945, a United States (US) warplane dropped an atomic bomb, which detonated over the city of Hiroshima, Japan early in the morning. The blast, radiation and firestorm caused by just a single bomb left approximately 80,000 people dead and 70,000 injured. Of the injured, tens of thousands more died in the subsequent days, weeks, months and years due to radiation-related effects.The multigenerational […]

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