How Did Nuclear Weapons Get on My Reservation?
Science Quickly
Scientific American
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🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:40.0 | You're listening to my first encounter with the Air Force at a nuclear missile facility. |
| 0:49.6 | My name is Ella Weber. I'm a member of the Mandan, Hadatsa, and a Ricaraw nation, also known as the three |
| 0:56.4 | affiliated tribes, which is located in the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in Central |
| 1:01.4 | North Dakota. In this podcast, I'm going to tell you're |
| 1:17.0 | about myself, my community, in our relationship with nuclear weapons. I'm 20 years old and a |
| 1:16.2 | junior at Princeton University. You're listening to Scientific Americans, |
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| 1:26.0 | This is episode one, Becoming Nuclear. I'm part of an undergraduate directed project called Nuclear Princeton |
| 1:39.2 | for driving on the Fort Berthold Reservation to look for nuclear missile silos. |
| 1:44.2 | The people you are about to hear are my friends Lillian Fitzgerald, a member of the Klamath |
| 1:48.4 | tribes, and Blue Carlson, a member of the Cherokee Nation. |
| 1:52.4 | Joshua Wirth, whose native Hawaiian, is kind of observing in the vaccine. |
| 1:56.0 | We are also there with Rio Morimoto, a Japanese anthropologist and assistant professor at Princeton. |
| 2:02.0 | There are five of us documenting the experiences of people living near the missiles. |
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