US Gov’t’s. Marshall Islands Experiment

“We didn’t want to test in America. We didn’t want to endanger our own people. Therefore, we have a responsibility to make good for that. Now, people like Tony will say everybody in the Marshalls suffered from the bombing. There’s no evidence of that healthwise. What they did suffer from, I think, is that the money created a dependency (on aid).” Former US Ambassador William Bodde, Jr. on nuclear issues in the ongoing US-Marshalls negotiations.

The statement need no further interpretation nor translation for it confirms my long held suspicion that the drop of the Atomic Bomb in Bikini (which sank an entire island) and contaminated other neighboring islands was in fact, another American Experiment to determine the effects of radiation on human beings. It was an experiment on innocent islanders to find out (some 20 years later) the debilitating effects of a heavy dosage of radiation on the health of Bikinians and others from Rongelap and Utirik some 400 miles from Kwajelein.

This undertaking reminds us of the Tuskegee Experiment where syphilis was injected into the blood stream of African Americans (without telling them what it was all about) to determine the effects of such lethal bacteria on males and females affected by it. This ugly American Experiment opens up a myriad of suspicion of federal government undertakings on Americans of Color or non-Americans perhaps all aimed at ascertaining white supremacy and dominancy equal, if not, worse than Hitler’s grand scheme of ethnic cleansing. Sure, they can engage in perpetual denial that such was not the intent. But thanks to former Ambassador Bodde for, well, let’s sing it altogether now, “telling it like it is”.

The former ambassador must justify his assertion that there’s no suffering from islanders in the affected area “healthwise”. Sir, I was in both Rongelap, Utirik and Bikini in 1974 as part of the annual former Congress of Micronesia inspection. I sat and prayed in John Anjain’s grave and others who have died from heavy dosage of radiation. To this day, the destructive effects of radiation have indeed shown its ugliness in the birth of deformed babies or higher than national average among islanders of thyroid disorder.

How can you even brave asserting that they didn’t suffer “healthwise” and that there are no evidence to substantiate it? How about visiting these islands and its people for you too would sail away muted and humiliated at the destructive effects of the A-Bomb that was dropped there in the mid-forties.

Now, if you prefer another review of the effects of radiation, take a hop to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to find out if in fact none of the descendants of the A-Bomb have suffered from serious health disorder such as thyroid cancer and other serious physical deformities. Or let’s get down to basics: read about the effects of radiation. Logically, if it isn’t dangerous and lethal, why wasn’t it conducted in California? You’ve said it yourself, sir, in grand contradiction.

Finally, sir, how could you be so arrogant as to assert that the only suffering the islanders had was “dependency” on aid? After ruining their livelihood with heavy dosage of radiation where even the soil upon which they plant their food is contaminated, do you really expect them to double up on radiation through plants that also carry the same deadly contaminants? Man, I’ve never seen anybody don the role of an ostrich in such sterling fashion. Hello!