BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB COLD WAR YEARS
THE RADIATION GUINEA PIGS
SUFFOLK COUNTY RESIDENTS
AND MARSHAL ISLANDERS
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BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB WAS PART OF THE PACIFIC ATOMIC TESTS ALTHOUGH THE BIKINI ATOLL TEST THEY DENY BEING PART OF IT. THEIR AREA OF STUDY WAS RADIATION AND ITS RESULT ON PEOPLE AND AGRICULTURE. EVEN THOUGH THE REPORTS STATE BROOKHAVEN WAS NOT PART OF THE TEST THAT DOSED PEOPLE DURING THE MARSHAL ISLAND TEST WHERE SOMEONE SCREWED UP THE YIELD OF THE TESTS POWER. THE TEST DISINTEGRATED THE ENTIRE ISLAND INCLUDING THE 5 FOOT CONCRETE OBSERVATION POSTS OR WHERE TESTS WERE FILMED, LUCKY FOR BROOKHAVEN THE FALLOUT CLOUD WAS VERY LARGE AND CAUGHT THE CREW OF A JAPANESE FISHING VESSEL LUCKY DRAGON GIVING BROOKHAVEN SUBJECTS TO STUDY AND BEING UNLUCKY FOR THE INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO DIED FROM THAT RESULT, THE FALLOUT WAS ACTUALLY PIECES OF THE ISLAND LAGOON AND CORAL REEF PLUS THE VERY LARGE STEL BUILDING COMPLEX & FACILITIES ON ANOTHER AREA AWAY FROM THE TEST AND THAT WAS VAPORIZED AND THAT RAINED DOWN ON THE CREW CAUSING EXTREME PAIN AND DEATH FROM THE FALLOUT THE CREW HAD RADIATION BURNS,ETC AND BNL USED THEM FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS, BESIDES TRAVELING TO TESTS BNL CONDUCTED HUNDREDS OF FALLOUT SIMULATIONS ON AGRICULTURE ON THE PROPERTY. AND HAD OTHER ATOMIC WAR SIMULATIONS LIKE THE GAMMA FIELDS. GAMMA FIELDS ARE LARGE AREAS OF WOODS OR FARM WHERE A TELEPHONE POLE HAS A BOX CONTAINING A VERY DEADLY RADIATION LIKE PLUTONIUM ATTACHED TO THE TOP. THE WOODS BELOW SIMULATE THE POST ATTACK CONDITIONS AFTER A ATOMIC ATTACK, THE LAB IS SURROUNDED BY HOMES AND STORES WHERE 45 YEARS EARLIER THE AREA AROUND THE LAB WAS DESOLATE POTATO FIELDS. ACCIDENTS THAT CAUSED RADIOACTIVE STEAM TO BE RELEASED AND THOSE DOWNWIND OF IT GOT DOSED. THESE ACCIDENTS WERE ALWAYS FOLLOWED UP BY LAB OFFICIALS CLAIMING NO HIGH LEVEL OF RADIATION WAS RELEASED. HMMMMM THAT DOESN'T EXPLAIN THE CANCER CLUSTER IN A AREA OF 15 MILES. THIS CANCER IS NOT A COMMON CANCER YET IT THRIVES AROUND THE LAB?? COULD BNL BE TESTING HUMANS WITH RADIATION AND THAT ANSWER IS YES. IT HAS NEVER BEEN ADMITTED BY BNL BUT IT HAS OCCURRED IN OTHER LABS LIKE BROOKHAVEN. BROOKHAVENS COLD WAR MISSION WAS THE STUDY OF ATOMIC BLAST FALLOUT AND ITS EFFECT ON AGRICULTURE AND HUMANS. BNL WAS PRESENT AT THE NEVADA TEST SITE BLASTS, AND PACIFIC HYDROGEN BOMB TESTS THE FACT THAT ACCIDENTAL RELEASES OF RADIATION WHERE A COMMON OCCURRENCE DURING THE 1980s ANYONE UNLUCKY TO BE DOWNWIND GOT DOSED.THE IMAGE OF BNL USING HELICOPTERS WITH CROP DUSTING RIGS TO SPRAY SIMULATED FALLOUT (RADIATION+WATER+FOOD DYE)ONTO SIMULATED FARMS AND OTHER AGRICULTURE IS SCARY SINCE WIND WOULD BLOW THAT DOWNWIND THE OTHER THING I FOUND WAS DURING THE 1950-60s THE LAB USED THE AREA WOODS TO DO TESTS .YEARS LATER A FENCE AND A HIGHWAY CAME ALONG BUT DURING SOME DIRT BIKE RIDING WE FOUND OURSELVES UNDER A FADED SIGN STATING "DANGER RADIATION" THIS AREA WAS NOT LAB PROPERTY DID THEY DO SOMETHING PEOPLE LIVING ON THE LAND SHOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT IS IN THEIR BACKYARD? I BROUGHT THE SIGN TO THE LAB DURING A OPEN HOUSE THEY ACTUALLY TRIED TO TAKE IT AND WOULD NOT DISCLOSE ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING PAST TESTING OFF LAB PROPERTY. I CAN REALLY UNDERSTAND WHY THE LAB IS A PRIMARY SOVIET ICBM TARGET>
BELOW NEWSDAY LONG ISLANDS NEWSPAPER INVESTIGATED THE TESTING OF RADIOACTIVITY ON HUMAN SUBJECTS BY BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS. USING THE MARSHAL ISLAND RESIDENTS AND UNCOVERED THE TRUTH THAT BROOKHAVEN USED HUMAN SUBJECTS AS GUINEA PIGS TO TEST THE EFFECTS OF RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT CONDITIONS POST BLAST. THIS STUDY WATCHED AS THE RADIATION LEFT BY THE FALLOUT WORKED ITS WAY INTO THE FOOD CHAIN THAT THE ISLANDERS WERE EATING. WORSE, THEY ALLOWED MORE RADIOACTIVE EXPOSURE TO THE ISLANDERS NEVER WARNING THEM AND NEVER REVEALING THE TRUTH.
BROOKHAVEN LAB HAS MANY NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNING WORK ALTHOUGH THEY ACTED LIKE WAR CRIMINALS EXPOSING HUMANS TO DEADLY RADIATION KNOWINGLY.
For 43 years, doctors at Brookhaven National Laboratory were in charge of the medical care of residents of the remote Marshall Islands in the Pacific who had been exposed to radiation from nuclear bomb blasts set off by the United States during the Cold War. Newsday's investigation shows the lab knowingly allowed hundreds of island residents to live on contaminated islands so that American scientists could study the flow of radioactivity through their bodies for "scientific and military concerns." BNL also convinced some 100 Marshallese residents to have highly questionable thyroid surgery -- paying each person $25,000 to secure their cooperation -- often without their fully informed consent. After living on their contaminated islands from 1957 to 1985, the population of Rongelap fled, convinced that they were being lied to by the BNL team. They now live hundreds of miles away from their homeland. Now the Obama adminstration and the U.S. Congress will have to decide whether to pay $1 billion in damages awarded to Rongelap by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal in 2007.
Brookhaven Statement on Marshall
Islands
August 22, 2009
In 1956, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) turned to Brookhaven National Laboratory to continue a program of medical evaluation and care of Marshall Islanders accidentally exposed to radioactive fallout following a U.S. nuclear weapons test at Bikini atoll on March 1, 1954. Brookhaven Lab was not involved in the weapons test.
On that day, according to government reports, the wind shifted unexpectedly toward inhabited atolls just before detonation and the explosion produced higher amounts of fallout than predicted. As a result, Marshallese on the atolls of Utirik, Rongelap, and Ailinginae; American servicemen at a weather station on Rongerik Atoll; and Japanese fishermen on the vessel Lucky Dragon were all exposed to high levels of radiation.
In the aftermath of this disastrous accident, the AEC and Department of Defense dispatched an emergency medical team to the area and then continued follow-up visits. Over the next two years, several Naval physicians from that team joined the staff at Brookhaven Lab, leading to the 1956 AEC request that Brookhaven take over the medical program.
Robert Conard became head of the program, and he and colleagues made trips to the Marshall Islands every year to treat radiation-related illnesses, collect samples for laboratory analyses, and measure radiation levels in the environment. Study results were shared in scientific journals. Twenty years later, when the Department of Energy (DOE) came into being in 1977, Brookhaven was asked to maintain the program under contract to DOE.
The program ended for Brookhaven Lab in 1998. Today, DOE continues to provide annual medical screening to the Marshallese at medical clinics in the Marshall Islands and in the United States.
DOE reports annually to Congress on the health care program for the remaining members of the Marshallese population exposed to radiation resulting from the 1954 Bikini nuclear weapons test.
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THIS LAB NEWSLETTER HAS AN ARTICLE THAT EXPLAINS HOW THE FALLOUT SHELTER WAS CHECKED FOR HOT SPOTS USING COBALT TO SEE HOT SPOTS, THE LAB CONDUCTED MANY OF THESE TYPE OF EXPERIMENTS USING RADIATION TO GATHER DATA ON HOW FALLOUT WOULD DAMAGE CROPS,AND AGRICULTURE AND USED VARIOUS RADIATION ON HUMAN SUBJECTS STARTING WITH THE MARSHALL ISLANDERS AND WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY REALLY TESTED RADIATION ON DURING THE COLD WAR YEARS WHEN INFORMATION THE LAB COLLECTED WAS DEEMED FOR THE GOOD OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AND PROJECTS LIKE THESE WERE KEPT SECRET FOR THE NATIONS DEFENSE |