The Members of This Reservation Learned They Live with Nuclear Weapons. Can Their Reality Ever Be the Same?
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
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| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. You know what's crazy, I was crazy, I've always had dreams of them. |
| 0:30.0 | You know what's crazy? I've always had dreams of explosions going off in the west and like we'd |
| 0:41.9 | always be like hunkered down in gymnasiums or like, even in like ceremonies. |
| 0:48.3 | I've had dreams we're all like in a ceremonial setting waiting for an explosion to go off. |
| 0:57.0 | Amid J. Fimbrits at the recently recently opened MHA Nation Interpretive Center in New Town, North Dakota, the most populous town on the Fort Bertha Reservation. |
| 1:10.0 | While she says she doesn't know much about nuclear war |
| 1:15.4 | I think I've even within those dreams I had dreams of surviving those things |
| 1:21.1 | as well |
| 1:28.8 | But there was like radioactive damage and stuff and we were like mutating but we like learned to get through it. |
| 1:41.0 | You are listening to Scientific Americans podcast series, The Missles Honor Res. I'm Ella Weber, a member of the Mandan Hideza in a |
| 1:44.0 | recurination, a Princeton student, and a journalist. This is episode 5. What |
| 1:49.2 | happens now? This is the last episode of our series. |
| 1:55.0 | Throughout the first four episodes, we learned about how nuclear missiles arrived on our reservation. |
| 2:03.2 | We also learned how the Air Force failed to appropriately describe the human and environmental |
| 2:07.3 | consequences associated with its plans to modernize existing nuclear missile silos. Those plans included placing new missiles on |
| 2:14.8 | our land for the next 60 years. We discussed the risks associated living with these |
| 2:20.0 | weapons for the tribe and what it really meant for our members, including my family, |
| 2:24.8 | to live in a national nuclear sacrifice zone. In this final episode I'm returning to |
| 2:30.6 | my tribe, the MAJ Nation, to share what I found. |
| 2:37.1 | I met with my grandma, Deborah Malnori, |
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