Shouldn’t be too difficult. Bet there’s red tape and corrupt islanders in play too.
Blackbeard learned the same thing as he attempted to bring his pirate ships into the harbors of NC. The shores and sands beneath…are constantly shifting. Hence…there’s a lot of wrecked ships off of the coast.
That said, we should do everything possible to stop this pollution.
Why wait around for the problem envisioned to materialize with the associated preventable costs? The dome was always a temporary bandaid.
“Officials in the Marshall Islands have lobbied the U.S. government for help, but American officials have declined, saying the dome is on Marshallese land and therefore the responsibility of the Marshallese government.”
Doesn’t sound like the US is currently interested in taking ownership.
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I accept your ignorance on the matter of Engineering.
“Officials in the Marshall Islands have lobbied the U.S. government for help, but American officials have declined, saying the dome is on Marshallese land and therefore the responsibility of the Marshallese government.”
" A Times review of thousands of documents, and interviews with U.S. and Marshallese officials, found that the American government withheld key pieces of information about the dome’s contents and its weapons testing program before the two countries signed a compact in 1986 releasing the U.S. government from further liability. One example: The United States did not tell the Marshallese that in 1958, it shipped 130 tons of soil from its atomic testing grounds in Nevada to the Marshall Islands.
U.S. authorities also didn’t inform people in Enewetak, where the waste site is located, that they’d conducted a dozen biological weapons tests in the atoll, including experiments with an aerosolized bacteria designed to kill enemy troops."
Again, doesn’t sound like the US Govt is taking ownership so far. Hopefully that changes.
Because many times the problem envisioned doesn’t materialize.
That needs to and can change.
How does detonating nukes between 1946-54 bail us out of a war that ended a year before?
Not sure the US track record on this matter is a good indicator for change.
" Adding to the alarm is a study published this year by a team of Columbia University scientists showing levels of radiation in some spots in Enewetak and other parts of the Marshall Islands that rival those found near Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Such discoveries could give Marshallese leaders fresh ammunition to challenge the 1986 compact, which is up for renegotiation in 2023, and also to press the United States to honor property and health claims ordered by an international tribunal.
The tribunal, established by the two countries in 1988, concluded the United States should pay $2.3 billion in claims, but Congress and U.S courts have refused. Documents show the U.S. paid just $4 million."
Unless of course China offers to bail them out and effectively own the Islands going forward. Seems like a mroe likely scenario than the US taking ownership.
"China is taking an increasing interest in the Marshall Islands and other Pacific island nations, in part because of their strategic location and Beijing’s interest in reducing U.S. influence in the region. Those inroads by China have alarmed U.S. leaders, forcing them to pay more attention to the grievances of Marshallese leaders such as Heine.
“This heightened interest,” Heine said, “should bode well for us.”
Do you speak Russian?
There it is. lol
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Yeah, it’s the Islanders that are the problem here.
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Are you denying they are part of it?
Reading comprehension issues, eh?
Maybe since the US saved the UK by developing these weapons, the UK should now help pay for cleaning up this mess?
They are quite open about taking part ownership of the problem.
US officials notsomuch.
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We did our own testing on native populations.
