DoomsdaysCW<p>[Podcast] A Community of Color Contends With the Navy’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Toxic</span></a> Legacy</p><p>Decades after the Navy shuttered a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>radiation</span></a> research lab, the mess hasn’t been completely cleaned up. Listen to local voices demanding accountability amid charges of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a>.</p><p>By Rebecca Bowe, 11.25.2024</p><p>"The San Francisco Public Press presents the first half of a two-part radio documentary, '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Exposed" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Exposed</span></a>,' opening a window into the little-known history of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HuntersPointNavalShipyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HuntersPointNavalShipyard</span></a>. The sprawling abandoned naval base, in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanFrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SanFrancisco</span></a>’s southeast waterfront <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bayview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bayview</span></a> neighborhood, is currently the site of the city’s largest real estate development project. The base played a key role in the Cold War nuclear era, when it housed a research institution known as the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NRDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NRDL</span></a>], which studied the human health effects of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>radiation</span></a>.</p><p>"In Episode 1 of the podcast, we trace the radioactive contamination found in the shipyard soil today back to its origins, with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearBomb</span></a> testing in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarshallIslands" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MarshallIslands</span></a>. We also hear from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> advocates, including one who led a health biomonitoring survey revealing that nearby residents have toxic elements stored in body tissues that match the hazardous chemicals of concern identified at the shipyard.</p><p>"This radio documentary is part of a larger multimedia package stemming from a deep dive into declassified government records produced by the radiation lab in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. Listen to Episode 2 of the podcast: 'Why the Navy Conducted Radiation Experiments on Humans.'"</p><p><a href="https://www.sfpublicpress.org/exposed-podcast-episode-1-a-community-of-color-contends-with-the-navys-toxic-legacy/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sfpublicpress.org/exposed-podc</span><span class="invisible">ast-episode-1-a-community-of-color-contends-with-the-navys-toxic-legacy/</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNuclearWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoNuclearWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadiationExposure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RadiationExposure</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColdWarExperiments" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ColdWarExperiments</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HuntersPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HuntersPoint</span></a></p>