Episode 215 - How the US Poisoned the Marshall Islands

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Lions Led By Donkeys

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🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys The story of how the US poisoned the Marshall Islands with nuclear fallout and did nothing to clean it up. sources: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/02/27/castle-bravo-the-largest-u-s-nuclear-explosion/ https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/castle-bravo https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/ Zohl De Ishtar "Poisoned Lives, Contaminated Lands: Marshall Islanders Are Paying a High Price for the United States Nuclear Arsenal" Seattle Journal for Social Justice. https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/lost-sea/ https://borgenproject.org/thyroid-cancer-a-radiation-caused-healthcare-crisis-in-the-marshall-islands/ Oishi, Matashichi. "The Day the Sun Rose in the West: The Lucky Dragon, and I." University of Hawaii Press. *corrections* FDR died after completing 3 terms in office, barely made it 80 days into his 4th.

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0:54.9	Hello! Yeah, welcome to another episode of The Lines Led by Donkey's. I am Joe, and with me today
1:00.8	is Sarah. Hello, Sarah. Yay, Sarah. Am I allowed to say that with anybody else? Am I cheating on
1:07.1	victim? I don't want to get involved in y'all's relationship. Yeah, it's for the best. We're not
1:14.0	quite cemented on what we truly are to one another. Anyway, we're talking about podcasting today.
1:20.0	Are we talking about podcasting or we podcasting or something else? No, we're podcasting
1:23.9	or something else. Now, Sarah, you have a show called It Came From The Sea. It's true. You are our
1:31.4	go-to person when it comes to anything to do with the ocean, and also we talked about things that
1:38.0	aren't ocean-related, but that's not important. That ruins my train of thought. How do you feel about
1:43.7	the Pacific Islands? Wow, that's a loaded question. Considering I spent most of my adult life on
1:52.1	Pacific Islands, I have thoughts. I think generally the islands themselves, like the geology,
1:59.5	is beautiful. The cultures are very interesting and diverse and deep, and the kind of modern
2:06.1	situations all around. Not great. So you're saying as you wouldn't want to drop a nuclear weapon
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