Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #56

0800056 - Enewetak Cleanup, Produced by the Defense Nuclear Agency - No date - 13:15 - Color - This video shows the actions being taken to cleanup the islands comprising Enewetak Atoll so that the previous inhabitants could return to live on some of them. The inhabitants were forced to relocate to other islands in 1948 when the United States began atmospheric testing of nuclear devices at the Pacific Proving Ground. Over the 1948-1958 time period, 43 tests were conducted on or near Enewetak Atoll.

Numerous decaying, abandoned buildings are shown that had to be demolished, while others were still suitable for use by the returning people. Homes, schools and government buildings had to be built.

The film details the radiation studies conducted to determine the extent of contamination and the uptake of radioactive particles by plants. Some parts of the Atoll would never be suitable for habitation because of the extent of contamination. One of the decontamination activities planned was removing the contaminated soil, transporting it to craters on one of the highly contaminated islands, and encasing it in concrete.

Those organizations cooperating in the cleanup effort included the Atomic Energy Commission, the Coast Guard, the Defense Nuclear Agency, and a marine biology firm.

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• Nuclear
• weapons
• WMD
• radiation
• radioactive
• testing
• warhead
• downwinders
• atomic
• cancer

[GrubbyCards]

As comedian Bob Hope commented: As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell.

[Tzimnewman3]

LOL With the count down I was waiting for an explosion :-)

[olasol]

I was a hippy and I enlisted in the Army, and ended up here. I lived on a 40 acre island called Lojwan, in the NE sector, for 4 months. I bathed in the ocean and built the island up for the housing of the cleanup crews. The chief of the Enewetokans still wore the hat that MacArthur gave him. I was one of the first people to visit Runit, the island with the craters and the most radioactive. I was given a pinch mask and a pair of rubber boots. In the video I saw the flagged plutonium that I held.

[Travmapunk]

@anabaptistSue Do you really think is any different now? lol at your ingenuity)))

[slimquikthis]

I can't relive the U.S government did this i am ashamed that we did this

[bg4tification]

"Clean it up" HAHAHA

Those poor people got the short end of the stick. :(

[rickcain2320]

Here ya go island natives, here's your homeland back, kinda radioactive, I wouldn't suggest eating the fish.

[diziplesp]

The White devil does it again.....

[HeadSHOT604]

@Jonwood74 You think that Justin Bieber is the last? Muhahahahaha your dead wrong this world will bow.

[Derealmist]

@mrgudmartin That sounds like republican government of cold war :)

[mrgudmartin]

what a nice island lying in the blue sea....lets nuke it 43 times ha ha ha ha

[freelifeuk]

this is so wrong