Bravo
nuclear explosion / Project 4.1 / March 1st, 1954
The Public Broadcasting Industry paid for and is now suppressing
a documentary film "Nuclear Savage" that explored nuclear testing in
the Marshall Islands 1946-1958 ~ that exposed Pacific Islanders to deadly
overdoses of radiation just to send a message and get more data on killing and
maiming people: Allen L Roland
The Republic of the Marshall Islands covers nearly a
million square miles of picturesque islands, thriving coral atolls, and crystal
clear blue waters …. undoubtedly one of the most interesting places in the
world to live and visit and evidently to bomb.
It was a Pacific island paradise... until the United
States tested nuclear weapons and conducted secret human radiation experiments from 1948 to 1954.Experiments that would remain
top-secret for decades....Until now...
The
U.S. Army performed nuclear weapons testing on Bikini from 1948 to 1954 and
established a missile testing range in Kwajalein. On March 1st, 1954, the US
Government conducted the BRAVO nuclear test (Project 4.1) which was 1000
times larger than the nuclear explosion at Hiroshima.
Project
4.1 is
the study of the response of human beings exposed to significant beta and gamma
radiation due to fall out from high yield weapons (nuclear bombs). In other
words, the Pacific Islanders were treated as savages and guinea pigs so the US
Government could send a message as to its military might and the effect on
those who dare to oppose it.
In
2005, director Adam Horowitz started work on "Nuclear Savage,"
his second documentary about the American military use and abuse of the
Marshall Islands.
As
William Boardman writes in Reader Supported News ~ Horowitz has a
contract with Pacific
Islanders in Communications (PIC), which describes itself as "a
national non-profit media arts organization" whose mission "is to
support, advance and develop programming that enhances public recognition of
and appreciation for Pacific Islander history, culture, and
society." Among its efforts to carry out this mission, PIC
supported the production of "Nuclear Savage" with $100,000 passed
through to Horowitz from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
Horowitz delivered a completed, 87-minute version of "Nuclear Savage"
in October 2011 - the same month it was nominated for Best Environmental
Film at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival. That was also
the same month various public broadcasting officials started putting up
roadblocks to keep the movie off the air, a delaying tactic that continues into
2014. FAIR (Fairness &
Accuracy in Reporting) reported the story in detail as "Nuclear
Stalemate" in Extra!
PIC
summarizes the film this way: "Some use the term 'savage' to
refer to people from primitive cultures, but nuclear experimentation pushed
savagery to new levels. In the 1950s, the U.S. conducted 67 atomic and
hydrogen bomb tests in the Marshall Islands, vaporizing islands and exposing
entire populations to fallout. The islanders on Rongelap received near
fatal doses of radiation from one test, and were then moved onto a highly
contaminated island to serve as human guinea pigs for 30 years. Filmmaker Adam
Jonas Horowitz spent 25 years collecting material - including original footage,
archival clips, and unpublished secret documents - to create this
unforgettable and ironic portrait of American cynicism, arrogance, and racism.
Winner of festival awards in Paris, Chicago and Mexico City."
See
outstanding William Boardman article: http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/287-124/21393-us-human-radiation-experiments-covered-up-by-public-broadcasting
Here
is the 8 minute trailer video which features Adam Horowitz describing America's
most horrific and barbaric act of racism ~
“...racist thought
and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they
are directed at.” Chris Crutcher
Allen
L Roland
Freelance Alternative
Press Online columnist and transformational counselor
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L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and
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It's called the Bikini Atoll film and I have seen it for free via my public library. So it is not banned, it's just that not very many people know about it. But it's nothing compared to what we have today because the Centers for Disease Control actually has labs where they are actually creating Weapons of Mass Destruction with Chemical Warfare agents and they are lying to you about it.
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