Webinar: The Marshallese Nuclear Legacy

“The world must reject the false narrative that nuclear weapons are
necessary — instead we must embrace a nuclear weapons free world.”

Benetick Kabua Maddison, Executive Director of the Marshallese Educational Initiative.

The Nuclear Truth Project and the Joanna Macy Centre, Naropa University hosted a webinar The Marshallese Nuclear Legacy: learn how we can support frontline communities.

Held on April 6th at 4PM Mountain Time / April 7th at 8AM AEST to learn more from Benetick Kabua Maddison Executive Director of the Marshallese Educational Initiative.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the advent of US nuclear weapon testing in the #MarshallIslands, forever altering the health, wellbeing, ecology and culture of the Marshallese People.

From July 1946 to August 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear detonations in the atmosphere and underwater, brutally violating Indigenous people and their environment with long lived radioactive poisons in an operation the US Government called “for the good of mankind and to end all wars.”

In addition to the legacy of US nuclear testing, the Marshallese now find themselves on the frontline of climate chaos. Rising sea levels threaten the very existence of this vast nation of atolls and islands in Oceania.

As the Trump Administration threatens to bring back nuclear testing, it is especially important that we be reminded that people are still suffering from US nuclear negligence, eight decades later.

The Joanna Macy Center is honored to collaborate with the Nuclear Truth Project in hosting Benetick, who will share his views on the Marshallese nuclear legacy, nuclear colonialism and what we can collectively do to support our Indigenous relatives in this struggle.