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How Did Nuclear Weapons Get on My Reservation?

Science Quickly

Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

A member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation digs into a decades-long mystery: how 15 intercontinental ballistic missiles came to be siloed on her ancestral lands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:46.9

Gotcha.

0:48.1

I'm sorry.

0:48.8

No, no.

0:49.1

That's okay.

0:52.3

You're listening to my first encounter with the Air Force at a nuclear missile facility.

0:59.0

My name is Ella Weber.

1:01.4

I'm a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Erikaan Nation, also known as the three affiliated tribes,

1:07.7

which is located in the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in central North Dakota.

1:18.0

In this podcast, I'm going to tell you about myself, my community, and our relationship with nuclear weapons.

1:24.7

I'm 20 years old and a junior at Princeton University.

1:28.9

You're listening to Scientific Americans, The Missals on Our Res, a new miniseries from Science

1:35.0

Quickly. This is episode one, becoming nuclear.

1:48.9

I'm part of an undergraduate directed project called Nuclear Princeton.

1:53.0

We're driving on the Fort Barthold Reservation to look for nuclear missile silos.

2:01.3

The people you are about to hear are my friends, Lily and Fitzgerald, a member of the Klamath tribes, and Blue Carlson, a member of the Cherokee Nation.

2:05.6

Joshua Worth, whose native Hawaiian, is kind of observing in the back seat.

2:11.7

We are also there, with Rio Morimoto, a Japanese anthropologist and assistant professor at Princeton.

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