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Séminaire R. van Munster « The Marshall Islands and the American Trials » – 18 mars 2021
Séminaire « Pour une histoire transnationale et comparée des installations et des essais nucléaires » - 18 mars 2021 The Marshall Islands and the American Trials Rens van Munster, Chercheur senior en relations internationales, Danish Institute for International Studies Résumé Between 1946 and 1958, the United States detonated 67 nuclear weapons on Bikini and Enewetak, the two most northern atolls of the Marshall Islands. The total yield of these tests corresponded to the detonation of 1,5 Hiroshima-sized bomb for every day of the 12-year testing period and spread radioactive fallout across the Pacific and the globe, causing irreversible contaminations among humans and natural environments. Drawing on the idea of ’nuclear ruin’, this talk examines US nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands and its relevance for our understanding of the Anthropocene,…