{"id":52362,"date":"2015-03-02T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=52362"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:26:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:26:02","slug":"testing-nuclear-weapons-in-the-marshall-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/03\/testing-nuclear-weapons-in-the-marshall-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Nuclear Weapons in the Marshall Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/nuclear-armageddon.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/nuclear-armageddon.jpg\" alt=\"nuclear armageddon\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/nuclear-armageddon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/nuclear-armageddon-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The islands were alive<br \/>\nwith the red-orange fire of sunset<br \/>\nsplashed on a billowy sky.<\/p>\n<p>The islanders lived simple lives<br \/>\nclose to the edge of the ocean planet<br \/>\nreaching out to infinity.<\/p>\n<p>The days were bright and the nights<br \/>\ncalm in this happy archipelago<br \/>\nuntil the colonizers came.<\/p>\n<p>These were sequentially the Spanish,<br \/>\nGermans, Japanese and then, worst of all,<br \/>\nthe United States.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. came as trustee<br \/>\nbearing its new bombs, eager to test them<br \/>\nin this beautiful barefoot Eden.<\/p>\n<p>The islanders were trusting,<br \/>\neven when the bombs began exploding<br \/>\nand the white ash fell like snow.<\/p>\n<p>The children played<br \/>\nin the ash as it floated down on them,<br \/>\ncovering them in poison.<\/p>\n<p>The rest is a tale of loss<br \/>\nand suffering by the islanders, of madness<br \/>\nby the people of the bomb.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>David Krieger is President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The islands were alive<br \/>\nwith the red-orange fire of sunset<br \/>\nsplashed on a billowy sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}