The Coming War on China Page #3

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as scientists plot experimental programs

designed to furnish data on blast effects

of the mighty atom bomb.

Animals of many kinds--

- [John Narrating] Animals

were strapped to the decks

like a perverse Noah's Ark.

The experiment was to see how they died,

how they burned.

- [Announcer] Special

ointments are applied

to determine their protective quality.

Other parts of the exposed areas

are being left bare to the atom blasts.

- [Soldier] Three, two, one.

(eerie music)

- [John Narrating] Being on Bikini today

is disturbing ghosts.

I struggle through the

jungle to the bunker

where they pressed the

button at 6:
45 on the morning

of the H-Bomb test.

Now claimed by the undergrowth,

it's like a subterranean

temple to modern times.

They drank Milk Maid Powdered Milk,

smoked Lucky Strike Cigarettes,

and later this sign was

erected that's beyond irony.

It says,

"Please leave this

property as you find it,

"thank you for your

kindness and understanding."

(water drips)

(jovial music)

- [Announcer] The Momselles

give their all for their art

and you can just bet

that audience is giving

with the wolf calls.

- [Male Announcer] The bikini, named after

the atomic explosion in the Pacific.

The bikini was an explosion everywhere.

- [John Narrating] In 1946, the

bikini swimsuit was launched

to celebrate the nuclear explosions

that had destroyed life on Bikini Island.

The inventor of the bikini, a Frenchman,

made his fortune.

Today a bikini body is

promoted in magazines

as an object of desire and good health.

The bodies of the people

of Bikini and other islands

are the most irradiated in the world.

All these women have had thyroid cancer.

Today, Bikini is unfit for human life.

Radiation poisons the food and water,

and issues registered

unsafe on a Geiger Counter.

The abandoned cemetery looks out to where

the sun rose one morning, then rose again

as apocalypse.

The equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb

was exploded in these islands

everyday for 12 years.

A scarred beauty has

returned to the island

but the people haven't.

Exiled to barren islands,

many of them starved.

In 1968, President

Lyndon Johnson told them

it was safe to go home.

(Geiger Counter clicks)

But it wasn't safe.

And the US authorities

knew it wasn't safe.

- What happened as a

result of the Bravo test

was that a cover-up was launched

very shortly after March one.

There's such a history

of wrong information,

outright lies, deception.

There was no attempt to take

the most conservative approach

and make sure that everybody was okay.

- They knew the way the

fallout was going to go.

And they took that risk and went ahead

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