#dancecamp #atomictrinity #girls #tragedy
π―ββοΈπ₯ Did you know that during the atomic Trinity test, there was a girls dance camp nearby? Shockingly, 10 out of the 12 girls who played in the falling white ash ended up passing away before they even reached the age of 40. This tragic event serves as a stark reminder of the devastating effects of nuclear testing.
In this article, we will delve deeper into the story of the girls dance camp near the atomic Trinity test site and explore the heartbreaking consequences of their innocent actions. We will also discuss the wider implications of nuclear testing on both human lives and the environment.
## The Girls Dance Camp and the Atomic Trinity Test
The atomic Trinity test was conducted on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico as part of the Manhattan Project. The test was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon and marked the beginning of the nuclear age. Little did the girls at the nearby dance camp know that their lives would be forever changed by the events of that day.
### Playing in the White Ash
As the girls were enjoying their time at the dance camp, they noticed the falling white ash from the atomic Trinity test. Curious and unaware of the dangers, they started playing in the ash, unknowingly exposing themselves to harmful radiation.
### Tragic Consequences
Unfortunately, the consequences of their innocent play soon became apparent. Over the years, 10 out of the 12 girls who were present at the dance camp ended up developing serious health conditions and passing away before they even reached the age of 40. This heartbreaking outcome serves as a stark reminder of the long-lasting effects of nuclear testing.
## The Wider Implications of Nuclear Testing
The story of the girls dance camp near the atomic Trinity test site highlights the broader implications of nuclear testing on both human lives and the environment. Here are some key points to consider:
– **Health Effects:** Exposure to radiation from nuclear testing can have serious health consequences, including increased risk of cancer and other illnesses.
– **Environmental Impact:** Nuclear testing can also have devastating effects on the environment, causing long-term damage to ecosystems and wildlife.
– **Global Concerns:** The international community has long been concerned about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the potential for nuclear conflict.
In conclusion, the story of the girls dance camp near the atomic Trinity test site serves as a poignant reminder of the devastating impact of nuclear testing on human lives. It also underscores the need for greater awareness and accountability when it comes to nuclear weapons development and testing.
If you want to learn more about the tragic events at the girls dance camp or the broader implications of nuclear testing, be sure to check out our website for further information. Remember, knowledge is power, and by staying informed, we can work towards a safer and more peaceful world for future generations. #nucleartragedy #atomicimpact #radiationexposure
Source: https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2018/07/16/dancing-in-the-dust-of-death/
It’s almost just like our government does not give a single fuck about its citizens except as profit centers.. weird
Iβm not even surprised tbh
Our evolved monkey brains are so smart we’re dumb, all a species needs to do is survive and reproduce, we’re doing a lot of stupid weird shit
Older I get the more I learn of the bad the government has withheld from the general public. Such a shame.
IIRC there was a small town in New Mexico maybe 80 miles aways from the test site, and when the bomb went off, they saw the blast and thought they where witnessing the end of the world.
Edit: might have gotten the distance wrong, but in any case, here’s two articles that talk about everything in more detail.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/29/oppenheimer-bomb-downwinders-new-mexico/
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/atomic-bomb-fallout-nm/
Edit2: grammar.
I too Netflix π«‘
A woman in a farmhouse lost the vision in one eye permanently because she was looking in the direction of the bomb when it went off. A door frame protected the other eye.
The scientists decided not to let local people know that they were going to explode a bomb or evacuate people.
i remember reading about some people that lived near some of the pacific tests. they were so amazed at the falling ash from the nukes some of them tasted it.
My uncle was among Army troops marched into ground zero after one of these tests.
Dead at 50 from leukemia, Army said, “nope, not us.”
Kinda makes you think about all the shit we have done that future people might look back on like this.
Reminds me of Wittenoom and asbestos.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenoom,_Western_Australia
Kinda reminds me of the radium girls, decades earlier. Basically radium is luminescent and that is crucial for valves and dials that need to be seen in the dark – such as in aircraft or in military applications. This is very skilled labor for people with small hands and attention to detail – it was therefore one of the highest paying jobs a woman could land before WW2. Because of this, once you got in, you tried to get your friends and family jobs doing it too – which meant whole communities of young women died because they were trained to pull points of the paint brushes to make them into a finer point. This became so common the girls would use extra paint to accessorize outfits, or as nail polish, or make up. They were never told that radium is dangerous, nor were they given any protective materials. No one realized this was a problem in part because people didn’t quite know how radiation works. They thought it was like poison, usually harmless if you take it in such a minute dose that it doesn’t hurt you. Not realizing it builds up, based on amount or degree of exposure. Which is innocent enough, but failing to warn anyone is indefensible. As wore the actions of these companies took when the women’s bodies started disintegrating while they were still alive.
People knew that radium was dangerous (though at the time that stopped almost no one from handling it irresponsibly) – its incredible how many people who should have known better died horribly doing things they absolutely knew would kill them, such has handling it with their bare hands. But there was a knowledge gap to the general public who were often sold it as dietary supplements at the time. The radium girls are largely why that stopped. They all knew they were dead by the point that their bones dissolved or from the numerous cancers they developed, but they fought so their families would be compensated and so that wouldn’t happen again. Its largely why you can’t buy radium dick-pills today.
one of my all time favorite youtube channels/Journalistic outfits “Rare Earth” just uploaded a video about a group of tribesman who were poisoned by the biggest nuclear bomb ever tested by the U.S.
The scientists thought it would 10x less powerful than it was so the islands inhabitants were poisoned to an extreme degree and then taken for testing by U.S. since it was viewed as a convenient test group for the effects of radiation, most of them died fairly rapidly. They were the people of Rongelap Atoll.
No one will probably ever see this comment, but if you go to the βaboutβ page on the linked website, there is a very vague blurb about the organization that contains a link to an associated .org website for the non-profit advocacy group Beyond Nuclear. There isnβt a single scientist or physicist on staff. They all seem to be former self-proclaimed journalists, including the founder and his wife.
My grandparents were ranching in the mountains above Alamogordo (though SE of the Trinity site and south of most of the fallout) when the first bomb exploded and both died of cancer.
We never trusted (or liked) the Federal government and our concerns have proven to be valid.
This is mentioned in the Turning Point documentary on Netflix. Very tragic because the girls were very young and thought the hot white ash was ‘summer snow’.
One of my teachers mother was a βdownwinderβ she had a double lung transplant then some type of brain cancer if i remember correctly. Settlement she got was like 80K, shits kind of crazy to think about every now and then
Look up the hydrogen bomb in the Marshall islands, and how America treated our victims. I wonder if that is the America the MAGA crowd says we need to go back to…
Some people really acted like pollution and harm to others didn’t really exist and basically didn’t care, especially before the 60s-70s. Of course, some people still have a hard time understanding obvious things like yes, spraying 8,000,000 tons of PTFE firefighting foam on your runway for practice will pollute local water.
I lived in Los Alamos for a while and looked into the history. The former environmental practices for the labs and bomb construction were just incredibly… what’s the word, stupid? Careless? Intentional? The worlds first metal milling facility for metals like plutonium, americium and tritium just dumped it’s wastewater untreated directly into the floor of a beautiful canyon. The metal plumes were later found to have gone 550 feet down. There’s an old power station with a giant chromium plume and the government still insists that it magically stops directly at the line of San Ildelfonso Pueblo. There were places with chimneys and exhaust from nuclear scientific activities that just blew the tainted air straight up into the air with no filter. They buried the wastes from the first atomic bombs in unlined pits 20-30 feet deep (thankfully, those sites are being cleaned up now… at costs of $2-3 billion each). There were incidents like when a large rain in the 60s which exposed waste barrels in Acid Canyon (at that time, a park through the center of town) that were found to have transuranic waste (e.g. plutonium). Indigenous people live downstream from there and of course, Los Alamos is right on the Rio Grande. Plenty of other pollution besides nuclear materials, too. Really the more you read about it the more awful it is.
Think this is bad? The country’s deadliest super fund site is an asbestos mine in Libby Montana. Hundreds of people have died prematurely and the company declared bankruptcy in 2001 meaning the people affected never got squat. Just under 700 confirmed dead from exposure to asbestos
They spread the mine waste gravel all over town, in playgrounds and parks. Free gravel! Put it in your yard!!
About 3000 people still live there, probably blaming it all on Obama since it wasn’t until 2009 that the Feds decided to try to clean it up
Estimates now suggest that more people have died from US nuclear tests than died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
https://qz.com/1163140/us-nuclear-tests-killed-american-civilians-on-a-scale-comparable-to-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
My mom was born in Alamogordo a few weeks after a series of trinity tests. Her sisters were born a year before and a year after her. All three have had cancer 3+ times, and both of my grandparents have passed from cancer after surviving 2+ bouts. My momβs second and third treatments bankrupted my immediate family. My aunt is only alive because of donations from a church. Itβs seriously so unbelievably fucked.Β