NH #677 – OBSCENE Atomic Museum Shows No Bomb Victims, No Downwinders, Just Nuclear “FUN”<!!!>
Compare and Contrast: Picture of what the bombing of Hiroshima looked like to this one infant vs. logo outside the Atomic Museum in Las Vegas, promising all kinds of radioactive, life-destroying fun!
This Week’s Featured Interview:
- Sometimes one has to go into the belly of the beast. While in Las Vegas for the closing two days of the International Uranium Film Festival, I visited the Atomic Museum, which is dedicated to preserving the history of the Nevada Test Site (now known as the Nevada Nevada National Security Site). I interviewed the museum’s Deputy Director and Curator Joseph Kent, an historian who has risen through the ranks of the museum since joining it full time in 2019. Here is our interview, recorded on May 1, 2024.
- Linda Lovon – An activist attending the International Uranium Film Festival from Hawaii, with her brief thoughts on the museum.
Atomic Museum’s Deputy Director Joseph Kent with his PR handler and Robbie the Robot.
The Miller Map
The Miller Map, by Richard L. Miller, author of Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing. The true impact of the above ground atomic tests at the Nevada Test Site. This map and its information is not presented in any way at the Atomic Museum.
Links to Fill In the Atomic Museum’s Blanks:
I urge everyone – especially those who work with the Atomic Museum – to view the following films to fill in the blanks in the “story” told by the Atomic Museum:
- DOWNWIND – Award-winning documentary on every aspect of the Downwinder situation. Available on Amazon Prime. Filmmakers: Douglas Brian Miller, Mark Shapiro
- ATOMIC COVER-UP – The earliest on-the-ground footage of the atomic aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with audio from the cameramen who shot the film. This material was classified TOP SECRET for decades. Filmmaker: Greg Mitchell. Available on PBS.
- TIME BOMBS – The story of 40 young Canadian soldiers sent to Nevada to be used as guinea pigs when the American military wanted to know how the average soldier would hold up on a nuclear battlefield. Filmmakers: Guylaine Maroist, Eric Ruel
And if you prefer your information in book – which deserves to be stocked in the gift shop – check out American Ground Zero by Carole Gallagher.
The Nukewatch Report with John LaForge
NRC “apologizes” for lying about Minnesota’s Monticello nuclear reactor leaking radioactive tritium contaminated water into Mississippi River.
Links:
- Veterans for Peace webinar — Nuclear Power and Weapons in a Time of Rising Tensions —Thursday, June 20, 2024, 7pm Eastern time. Featured speakers are William Hartung, an expert on US military spending; Beyond Nuclear international specialist, Linda Pentz Gunter; and Greg Mello, director of the Los Alamos Study Group.
- There will be a rally in New York in front of the Japan Consulate at 2 PM on July 6, followed by a gathering at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza at 3:30 PM, to demand a halt to the dumping of nuclear wastewater from Fukushima.
