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Summary:

"John is a savage, but a happy, amenable savage." - 1950's newsreel footage of Marshall Islanders. Featuring recently declassified U.S. government documents, survivor testimony, and unseen archival footage, Nuclear Savage uncovers one of the most troubling chapters in modern American history: how Marshall islanders, considered an uncivilized culture, were deliberately used as human guinea pigs to study the effects of nuclear fallout on human beings. Between 1946 and 1958 the United States tested 67 nuclear weapons above ground on or near Bikini and Enewetok atolls. One hydrogen bomb was 1000 times larger than the Hiroshima bomb. Entire islands were vaporized and populated islands were blanketed with fallout. As the film shows, the heavily exposed people of Rongelap were then enrolled as human subjects in the top-secret Project 4.1 and evacuated to a severely contaminated island to study the effects of eating radioactive food for nearly 30 years. Many of the Marshall Islanders developed cancers and had babies that were stillborn or with serious birth defects. Nuclear Savage, follows the islanders today as they continue to fight for justice and acknowledgement of what was done to them. Despite recent disclosures, the U.S. government continues to deny that the islanders were deliberately used as human guinea pigs. The film raises disturbing questions about racism, the U.S. government's moral obligation to the people of the Marshall Islands, and why the government is continuing to cover up the intent of the tests and Project 4.1 after several decades.

Contributors:

Horovitz, Adam Jonas , producer, director, screenwriter, narrator

Primoridial Soup Productions , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Subjects:

Radiation — Toxicology — Research — Marshall Islands

Nuclear weapons — Testing — Health aspects — Marshall Islands

Radiation injuries — Marshall Islands

Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946

Marshall Islands — History

Operation Crossroads (Marshall Islands : 1946)

1946

Nuclear weapons — Testing — Health aspects

Nuclear weapons

Radiation injuries

Radiation — Toxicology — Research

Radiation

Pacific Ocean — Marshall Islands District

Marshall Islands

Genres:

Documentary films

Environmental films

Online media

Internet videos

History

General Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 03, 2017).
Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (56 mins.))

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

OCLC Numbers:

986426804

Other Control Numbers:

3394129 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP3394129/avon