scholarly journals Time-resolved record of 236U and 239,240Pu isotopes from a coral growing during the nuclear testing program at Enewetak Atoll (Marshall Islands)

2016 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 197-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.B. Froehlich ◽  
W.Y. Chan ◽  
S.G. Tims ◽  
S.J. Fallon ◽  
L.K. Fifield
Keyword(s):  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Testing Program ◽  
Enewetak Atoll

The Nuclear Sensorium: Cold War Nuclear Imperialism and Sensory Violence

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Shiga
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Ecological Impact ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
United States Military ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
Testing Program ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Cold War

AbstractThis paper traces the sensory dimensions of nuclear imperialism focusing on the Cold War nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States military in the Marshall Islands during the 1950s. Key to the formation of the “nuclear sensorium” were the interfaces between vibration, sound, and radioactive contamination, which were mobilized by scientists such as oceanographer Walter Munk as part of the US Nuclear Testing Program. While scientists occupied privileged points in technoscientific networks to sense the effects of nuclear weapons, a series of lawsuits filed by communities affected by the tests drew attention to military-scientific use of inhabitants’ bodies as repositories of data concerning the ecological impact of the bomb and the manner in which sensing practices used to extract this data extended the violence and trauma of nuclear weapons. Nuclear imperialism projected its power not only through weapons tests, the vaporization of land and the erosion of the rights of people who lived there, but also through the production of a “nuclear sensorium”—the differentiation of modes of sensing the bomb through legal, military, and scientific discourses and the attribution of varying degrees of epistemological value and legal weight to these sensory modes.

scholarly journals “Post-Quantal Garden” Annotated

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Boswell
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Speculative Fiction ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Bomb Test ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
Enewetak Atoll

The Post-Quantal Garden is a work of speculative fiction based on J.G. Ballard’s short story “The Terminal Beach” first published in 1964. Set within Donna Haraway’s climate-changed Chthulucene, the work is intended as an elliptical rumination on the history of nuclear testing in the Pacific, bio-hacking, tropicality, and apocalyptic narrative. Moving between historical fact and speculative fiction, the story takes the form of a scholarly introduction to and contextualization of fictional passages from an imaginary journal supposedly found during the very real radiological clean-up of Enewetak Atoll. Enewetak, an atoll in the Marshall Islands group, was used by the US for nuclear testing and was the site of operation Ivy-Mike, the first fusion bomb test, and is the setting for Ballard’s Terminal Beach.      

The Marshallese look: Clothing, culture and identity in a disappearing world

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-312
Author(s):  
C. A. DeCoursey ◽  
Ewa B. Krawczyk
Keyword(s):  
Generational Differences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Central Pacific Ocean ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Style Preferences

Marshallese youth face extraordinary challenges in creating an identity, due to their economy, isolated location – the Marshall Islands are located in the central Pacific Ocean and comprise of more than 1200 islands and islets – the history of US nuclear testing in the islands and climate change. Contemporary youth identity construction requires constant acts of acculturation, due to media and globalization. This study used content and transitivity analyses to explore how Marshallese youth understand their distinctive look. Content sub-unit frequencies indicated that the Marshallese community was the most significant factor in defining style, particularly cultural uniqueness, history, religion and generational differences. Collective pronouns indicated that acculturation anxieties stemmed from cultural differences and loss and were managed by asserting community affiliation. Personal style preferences reflected contextual and financial limitations. Process-type analysis constructed culture as the most vigorous actor and speaker, where youth roles included perception and cognition, with other islands’ views mediating between the two. Roles attributed to the media and the West included emoting and wanting, where China more closely resembled Marshallese youth, though the ubiquity of western content may render its agency somewhat invisible to Marshallese youth. Overall, Marshallese youth harmonize their individuality within attributed community and contextual factors. This is likely to be their preferred strategy when they emigrate to the United States, a highly individualistic country. Marshallese parents and second-generation Marshallese will require support, in their new context.

Poecilostomatoid Copepods associated with the Scleractinian coral Acropora in the tropical western Pacific Ocean

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 805 ◽  
Author(s):  
AG Humes
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Scleractinian Coral ◽  
New Records ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Western Pacific Ocean ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Tropical Western Pacific ◽  
Enewetak Atoll

Nine new lichomolgid copepods, including two new genera, Ecphysarion and Unicispina, are described, all associated with various species of the scleractinian genus Acropora in New Caledonia, at Ceram and Obi in the Moluccas, and at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands: Schedomolgus idanus, S. majusculus, S. insignellus, S. exiliculus, Scyphuliger eumorphus, S. aristoides, Ecphysarion ampullulum, E. spinulatum, and Unicispina latigenitalis. New records are given for Ecphysarion lobophomm (Humes & Ho, 1968), comb. nov., Scyphuliger concavipes Humes, 1991, S. manifestus Humes, 1991, and S. tenuatus (Humes, 1990).

Filamentous Fungi of the Psammon Habitat at Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands

Mycologia ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 839-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul H. Dunn ◽  
Gladys E. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Filamentous Fungi ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Enewetak Atoll

Vocal Ability and Musical Performances of Nuclear Damages in the Marshall Islands

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica A. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Structural Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
Text Setting ◽  
Musical Performances ◽  
Bikini Atoll ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Nuclear Tests

The United States conducted sixty-seven nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands from 1946 through 1958. The program was shrouded in secrecy; information about the tests conducted on Marshallese bodies and their land remains classified. This essay considers how Marshallese women from Bikini Atoll and Rongelap Atoll musically sound physical and physiological disruptions and dislocations that expose broader damages caused by the nuclear testing program. Analyzing compositions and performances from a repertoire of Marshallese “radiation songs,” the essay proposes a stylistic framework that works to familiarize listeners with a sonorized logic of radiation which is compiled through recurring motifs of the disabled voice, text setting and silences, and the figure of the question, literal and rhetorical. I stress the political import of these songs as highlighting the failures of biopolitical controls on communities by exposing the production of confined disability at the level of cultural and structural violence.

scholarly journals Individual Radiation Protection Monitoring in the Marshall Islands: Enewetak Atoll (2002-2004)

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Hamilton ◽  
S Kehl ◽  
D Hickman ◽  
T Brown ◽  
A Marchetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Protection ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Enewetak Atoll
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