VICEさんのインスタグラム写真 - (VICEInstagram)「“I pretty much knew the whole time I was getting exposed to high doses of radiation.”⁠ ⁠ Between 1977 and 1980, roughly 5,600 U.S. military personnel were sent to the Marshall Islands with one purpose: to make the Enewetak Atoll fit for human habitation again after 43 nuclear weapons tests—which made up about 6 percent of all nuclear weapons tested worldwide—were detonated there between 1948 and 1958.⁠ ⁠ “We’d go along the beaches at low tide and pick up metal from the blown-up ships, debris, ordinance, stuff from World War II, rusted Japanese helmets, some unexploded ordinance, which we’d sometimes blow in place,” Private Mark Sargent, one of the men sent to clean up the debris, said. “The Geiger counter would go off like crazy. You know that sound it makes? It’s just, you know it’s bad. And this is with your bare hands. I pretty much knew the whole time I was getting exposed to high doses of radiation.”⁠ ⁠ In the years since the men involved in the cleanup have found themselves facing health problems similar to those experienced by the men who witnessed the tests. But unlike those crews, the Enewetak cleanup veterans haven’t received government support or even acknowledgment they were affected. Like so many others who served time and returned with permanent health problems, the government has essentially abandoned them.⁠ ⁠ Link in bio.⁠ ⁠」1月3日 2時30分