sure Hawaii will survive without too many heavy metal or
radiation related problems, so there probably isn’t that
much to worry about. After all, Hawaii has been hit by
nuclear fallout before in the 50s and 60s during the U.S.
military’s nuclear tests in the Pacific, one of which took out
a streetlight in Oahu even though those tests were
conducted thousands of miles from Hawaii. And as far as I
know no Hawaiians died of cancer from those tests, only
the Marshallese and other Pacific islanders closer to the
test sites got sick or died. But most of those islanders
survived the fallout then and so did the people living on
Hawaii, so I’m sure they will survive this as well. Maybe
there will be some illness and even death caused by the
eating of contaminated fish, which Hawaiians eat by the
bucketload on a daily basis, including the bluefin tuna or
ahi which has been found to be contaminated as far away
as California, but it won’t affect everyone. Thyroid cancer,
higher infant mortality rates, and other such problems may
arise from the fallout in the air, rain, and soil, but the
Hawaiian people will still live on, however those who say
everything is just a-OK might want to reassess the situation
again.
To understand the mentality of those who keep the
truth about nuclear accidents to themselves we once again
return to Marat Filippovich Kokhanov in Voices From
Chernobyl. Kokhanov says radiation readings were off the
charts everywhere he took measurements, yet he kept
silent. He said he tested milk and meat which he said
couldn’t even be considered food items, but rather a
“radioactive byproduct.” Yet he didn’t say a thing.
Kokhanov explains:
“So here’s the answer to your question:
why did we keep silent knowing what we knew?
Why didn’t we go out onto the square and yell the
truth? We compiled our reports, we put together
explanatory notes. But we kept quiet and carried
out our orders without a murmur because of Party
discipline. I was a Communist. I don’t remember
that any of our colleagues refused to go work in
the Zone. Not because they were afraid of losing
their Party membership, but because they had
faith. They had faith that we lived well and fairly,
that for us man was the highest thing, the measure
of all things. The collapse of this faith in a lot of
people eventually led to heart attacks and
suicides. A bullet to the heart, as in the case of
Professor Legasov, because when you lose that
faith, you are no longer a participant, you’re an
also-ran, you have no reason to exist. That’s how I
understood his suicide, as a sort of sign.”39
a bunch of bananas.40 Of course I don’t believe this, but I
can always pray. Perhaps all of us should.
References
1. Siegel, Marc. False Alarm, The Truth About the
Epidemic of Fear. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New
Jersey: 2005.
2. RT. “Plumes of mysterious steam rise from crippled
nuclear reactor at Fukushima,” published time: Jan. 1,
2014 20:15, edited time: Jan. 2, 2014 22:43. http://
rt.com/news/fukushima-steam