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LAB RATS OF POKHRAN TESTS
105
Exactly four decades ago, India conducted its first nuclear test in Pokhran. Who in the world -- wherever that is -- could care less about India? The situation today is more despicable because of the dominant delusion they have of being a ‘great power.’
May 11 is celebrated every year in my house not because that on these dates India showed the world that it too had the Shakti to convert cities into radioactive rubble but it’s my birthday.
After all, this military fetish of India has caused serious disturbance in the region ranging from its unilateral nuclear arms race against itself and procurements that now affect the living standards of poor that absorb radiation and other diseases caused by nuclear explosions since 1974 test at Pokhran.
India tested its first nuclear device by exploding an eight-kiloton device in the Jaisalmer desert, five km from Loharki village. Though villagers have complained that they are suffering from diseases linked to radiation exposure, still authorities are of the view that inhabitants’ claims have no scientific basis.
Interestingly, the biggest lie told by army battalion, entering the Loharki on the night of 1974, was that those 2000 people living there would watch a firing show in the sky that could cause eye and nose irritation. However, that was of course a ruse and the things have never normalized thereafter. The radiation exposure has caused cancers and genetic disorder diseases still persist.
Now forty years after the misadventure nicknamed Smiling Buddha, fear of radiation exposure for peoples living in the vicinity of test range conducted by Indian military have long fallen out of the international spotlight. Instances of cancer are still commonplace, especially after the 1998 tests.
For instance, in August 2013, Om Prakash and his wife Tulsi Vishnoi lost their 18-year-old daughter. Their daughter was a high-school student who initially complained of a stinging pain in her ears and was soon struck with partial paralysis of her face. Which was later diagnosed as cancer by the doctors and died on August 20. Vishnoi is now collecting medical records and seeking the help of lawyers and the doctors who treated Manisha to investigate whether nuclear radiation was indeed the cause for her death.
Death from cancer has become a common occurrence in these radiation villages. Around six villagers die every year — all taken by cancer. That is not all. India has some twenty-one electricity generating reactors that are poorly regulated. India has the largest unsafeguarded nuclear fuel cycle in the world. People have died of cancer in the mining areas, or from ingesting contaminated water or from poor waste disposal. In a rush to expand its industrial base, caution is usually thrown to the wind. This mentality pervades across the spectrum. On the night of 2–3 December 1984, 3500 deaths people lost their lives at Bhopal in the Union Carbide chemical industry disaster and more than 8,000 died till now.
This nuclear misadventure on a vast scale has been a source of high incidence of breast cancer amongst women several other diseases. Children are showing developmental problems. No one in the government cares.
Since the tests conducted by India in Pokhran, government has done little to wipe away the fears of villagers living in the territory but have doubled it in the name of nuclear energy. An essential feature that has inhibited India’s nuclear-energy ambitions is its preoccupation with nuclear weapons.
Billions in India now face the fearsome prospect of living under the shadow of an Indian nuclear lust. The secrecy and opacity of Indian nuclear power industry refuse to reveal details on safety. India plans to source a quarter of its energy from nuclear power by 2050. Every society has to make a basic decision as far as use of nuclear power technology went but India clearly lacks in such situation. There hegemonic designs and class struggle has affected the common man’s life in the country. Diseases like cancer, goiter, infertility, mental retardation are common occurring due to uranium mining in India.
In an article for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1999), TS Gopi Rethinaraj writes:
“The department [of atomic energy] has happily exploited the ignorance of India’s judiciary and political establishment on nuclear issues. In the past, it has even used the Atomic Energy Act to prevent nuclear plant workers from accessing their own health records. While nuclear establishments everywhere remain in crosshair, have been notorious for suppressing information, nowhere is there an equivalent of India’s Atomic Energy Act in operation. Over the years, in the comfort of secrecy, India’s nuclear establishment has grown into a monolithic and autocratic entity that sets the nuclear agenda of the country and yet remains virtually unaccountable for its actions.”
That’s pretty clear that India created a dangerous new instability in their region. Nuclear power generation by India is inevitably fraught with radiation, an invisible and insidious poison, which is unsafe in all doses.
http://moderndiplomacy.eu/index.php...&id=1690:lab-rats-of-pokhran-tests&Itemid=867
- August 23, 2016
105
Exactly four decades ago, India conducted its first nuclear test in Pokhran. Who in the world -- wherever that is -- could care less about India? The situation today is more despicable because of the dominant delusion they have of being a ‘great power.’
May 11 is celebrated every year in my house not because that on these dates India showed the world that it too had the Shakti to convert cities into radioactive rubble but it’s my birthday.
After all, this military fetish of India has caused serious disturbance in the region ranging from its unilateral nuclear arms race against itself and procurements that now affect the living standards of poor that absorb radiation and other diseases caused by nuclear explosions since 1974 test at Pokhran.
India tested its first nuclear device by exploding an eight-kiloton device in the Jaisalmer desert, five km from Loharki village. Though villagers have complained that they are suffering from diseases linked to radiation exposure, still authorities are of the view that inhabitants’ claims have no scientific basis.
Interestingly, the biggest lie told by army battalion, entering the Loharki on the night of 1974, was that those 2000 people living there would watch a firing show in the sky that could cause eye and nose irritation. However, that was of course a ruse and the things have never normalized thereafter. The radiation exposure has caused cancers and genetic disorder diseases still persist.
Now forty years after the misadventure nicknamed Smiling Buddha, fear of radiation exposure for peoples living in the vicinity of test range conducted by Indian military have long fallen out of the international spotlight. Instances of cancer are still commonplace, especially after the 1998 tests.
For instance, in August 2013, Om Prakash and his wife Tulsi Vishnoi lost their 18-year-old daughter. Their daughter was a high-school student who initially complained of a stinging pain in her ears and was soon struck with partial paralysis of her face. Which was later diagnosed as cancer by the doctors and died on August 20. Vishnoi is now collecting medical records and seeking the help of lawyers and the doctors who treated Manisha to investigate whether nuclear radiation was indeed the cause for her death.
Death from cancer has become a common occurrence in these radiation villages. Around six villagers die every year — all taken by cancer. That is not all. India has some twenty-one electricity generating reactors that are poorly regulated. India has the largest unsafeguarded nuclear fuel cycle in the world. People have died of cancer in the mining areas, or from ingesting contaminated water or from poor waste disposal. In a rush to expand its industrial base, caution is usually thrown to the wind. This mentality pervades across the spectrum. On the night of 2–3 December 1984, 3500 deaths people lost their lives at Bhopal in the Union Carbide chemical industry disaster and more than 8,000 died till now.
This nuclear misadventure on a vast scale has been a source of high incidence of breast cancer amongst women several other diseases. Children are showing developmental problems. No one in the government cares.
Since the tests conducted by India in Pokhran, government has done little to wipe away the fears of villagers living in the territory but have doubled it in the name of nuclear energy. An essential feature that has inhibited India’s nuclear-energy ambitions is its preoccupation with nuclear weapons.
Billions in India now face the fearsome prospect of living under the shadow of an Indian nuclear lust. The secrecy and opacity of Indian nuclear power industry refuse to reveal details on safety. India plans to source a quarter of its energy from nuclear power by 2050. Every society has to make a basic decision as far as use of nuclear power technology went but India clearly lacks in such situation. There hegemonic designs and class struggle has affected the common man’s life in the country. Diseases like cancer, goiter, infertility, mental retardation are common occurring due to uranium mining in India.
In an article for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1999), TS Gopi Rethinaraj writes:
“The department [of atomic energy] has happily exploited the ignorance of India’s judiciary and political establishment on nuclear issues. In the past, it has even used the Atomic Energy Act to prevent nuclear plant workers from accessing their own health records. While nuclear establishments everywhere remain in crosshair, have been notorious for suppressing information, nowhere is there an equivalent of India’s Atomic Energy Act in operation. Over the years, in the comfort of secrecy, India’s nuclear establishment has grown into a monolithic and autocratic entity that sets the nuclear agenda of the country and yet remains virtually unaccountable for its actions.”
That’s pretty clear that India created a dangerous new instability in their region. Nuclear power generation by India is inevitably fraught with radiation, an invisible and insidious poison, which is unsafe in all doses.
http://moderndiplomacy.eu/index.php...&id=1690:lab-rats-of-pokhran-tests&Itemid=867
