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Just One U.S. Reservation Hosts Nuclear Weapons. This Is The Story of How That Came to Be

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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15 nuclear missiles deployed in underground concrete silos across the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota. It took displacement and flood to get them there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:35.4

Is it true that we, out of all of these though, we are the only, we are reservation?

0:41.3

Yeah.

0:42.3

You are the only reservation in the United States who host nuclear weapons.

0:48.3

Okay, guys, that's a new perspective.

1:05.5

In American history, certain stories remain untold, buried beneath the weight of oppression,

1:06.9

neglect, and exclusion.

1:13.6

How nuclear missiles ended up being deployed on the Fort Berthold Reservation of MHA Nation in North Dakota, also called the Three Affiliated Tribes is one such story, a tale that epitomizes the troubled relationship between Native Americans and the U.S. government.

1:21.6

That, by the way, is Edmund Baker, the Environmental Director of MHA Nation.

1:26.6

He is responsible for enforcing the three affiliated tribes' environmental protection code.

1:31.9

He wasn't exactly aware of the U.S. Air Force's plans to modernize all of his existing nuclear missile silos, including the 15 on our reservation.

1:39.5

But more on that in the next episode.

1:42.3

You are listening to Scientific Americans podcast series,

1:45.8

The Missiles on a Res.

1:46.9

I'm Ella Weber, a member of the MHA Nation,

1:49.8

a Princeton University student, and a journalist.

1:52.6

This is episode two.

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