Fiona Apple - Regret (atomic bomb remix)
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Channel: Fiona Apple Rocks [FAN ACCOUNT] · 2017 · Music
In July 1946, the US military conducted a pair of nuclear weapons tests on the island of Bikini, a coral atoll in the Marshall Islands chain Live animals including pigs and goats were positioned on the ships and shore to test for the impact on living creatures. Bikini atol was the world's first nuclear disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atoll In June 1968, based on scientific advice that the radiation levels were sufficiently reduced, President Lyndon B. Johnson promised the 540 Bikini Atoll families living on Kili and other islands that they would be able to return to their home. About 100 people, moved back to their home island in 1972. But 10 years later a team of French scientists found radiation levels were still too dangerous for human habitaion and so the islanders had to be evacuated a second time. Music: Fiona Apple - Regret (The Idler Wheel)
