• Plopp@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    That sounds a bit sadistic. Who came up with that rule? “Let’s wait until there’s only one of them left, then we’ll listen!”

    • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      It means, “listen up, this is your last chance to hear their words, from their mouths.” People have been documenting their thoughts for a long time, but their time is coming to an end.

      • Repple (she/her)@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Yep, John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” scarred me for life (as well it should have) when I read it in 5th grade, especially as a Japanese American whose grandfathers fought on each side of the war.

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    1 month ago

    Not really the last considering both the U.S. and the Soviets had their troops march into the radioactive cloud during tests to see what would happen.

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      Not to mention there’s got to be at least a handful of the people on pacific islands we screwed over with tests such as Castle Bravo left.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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        1 month ago

        Definitely. A bunch of indigenous Pacific Islanders were exposed, as was a boat full of Japanese fishermen. The latter event was the inspiration for Godzilla.

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          The inhabitants of Tahiti, where the Olympic surfing event was, have used the attention to their suffering of the French atomic tests there. They did around 200 of them.

          For people who like data visualized, here’s an overview of all atomic explosions since Trinity: https://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY?si=XPWeZ9IXU4X4x1QD

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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            One of the worst parts to me is that the U.S. had taken those islands in WWII and just decided, “these are ours forever now and we can do whatever the fuck we want with them,” which kind of sounds like the imperialism they were supposedly fighting.