U.S. NUCLEAR TESTING "PUT THE POPULATION OF GUAM IN HARM'S WAY KNOWINGLY AND WITH TOTAL DISREGARD FOR THEIR WELL BEING"

The impact of nuclear testing in the region, according to (a 2012 U.S. report), “was the largest ecological disaster in human history."

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PACIFIC ISLAND TIMES

Radioactive fallout alert

By Mar-Vic Cagurangan

While North Korea renews its nuke strike threat, Guam renews its call for radiation exposure compensation

Three weeks after carrying out a powerful nuclear test in its own testing site on Sept. 3, North Korea warned it might detonate a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean. If Pyongyang makes good on its constant threats, civil defense officials say, residents will have 14 minutes to duck and/or run for their lives. The Office of Civil Defense has thus renewed its guidelines on how to survive a possible nuclear strike, giving the community a crash course on the danger of exposure to radioactive elements. “Do not look at the flash or fireball—it can blind you. Take cover behind anything that might offer protection. Remove your clothing to keep retroactive material from spreading,” state the guidelines.

If North Korea’s hydrogen bomb detonation did come about, it certainly wouldn’t be the ocean’s first nuclear blast.

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