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IV. Conclusion
1. The author’s attitude and purpose in writing the article. Can you ‘hear’ the voice of the author? What is it used for?
2. Your ideas and attitudes


Handout 1. McDiarmid, B. (2010, August 01). The Deadly Fallout. Sunday Star-Times. Retrieved April 15, 2017
The newspaper article “The Deadly Fallout” written by Bunny McDiarmid was published in the Sunday Star-Times on August 1st, 2010. I accessed it through the Hollins library database, EBSCOhost. McDiarmid was a Greenpeace chief helping to relocate people living in Rongelap, one of the Marshall Islands, to more safer spaces in 1985 via the ship Rainbow Warrior, after the devastating effects left from nuclear testing done by the United States government in the 1950’s. The article talks about the history of the nuclear tests, the long-lasting health and environmental effects on the Marshall Islands, and the current state of it all regarding the United States government and financial aid to the Marshall Islands. The author brings in her own experiences, as well as concrete data to address the topic. I will outline the main points brought up in this newspaper article, discuss the author’s credibility, and analyze the information given while focusing on the nuclear effect on the environment in the Marshall Islands and how it is related to the politics of it all.
The article starts out with the author explaining her role, as a Greenpeace chief in helping the Rongelap people relocate. She mentions the first-hand experiences she had with the people and how after years of enduring health issues such as cancer and birth defects, they no longer believed they were safe on their island so they chose to uproot their lives and move to another island where they had no land rights. McDiarmid then goes on to outline the history of the U.S. nuclear tests performed in the Marshall Islands, which was a UN Trust territory under the care of the U.S. One of the largest nuclear tests was Bravo in 1954 and the fallout from the test rained down on many other islands, including Rongelap, where the people living there were not informed or evacuated beforehand despite the known risks from radiation exposure by the U.S. government. Two days after the Bravo test, the people of Rongelap were finally evacuated and three years later were moved back to their home island because the U.S. government said it was safe. However, the U.S. military confirmed that there was still above average radiation on the island and as one military report said: “the habitation of these people will afford most valuable ecological radiation data on human beings.” The newspaper article then goes on to mention more recent challenges the Rongelap people face when confronting the U.S. to take responsibility for the decades of damages the Marshall Island people have faced.
I believe this was a very well written newspaper article that included a lot of concrete information, trustworthy data, and the invaluable insight that only someone who has had first-hand experience can contribute.
Overall, this newspaper article shows how the United States had taken advantage of the Marshall Islands, disregarded the health of the people and the environment, and used it for their own militaristic gains to test nuclear power. Even though this was done in the 1950’s, the effects can still be seen today in the continued distrust by the Marshallese towards the United States government and the health and environmental effects that are still prevalent today. It is important to recognize that the people of the Marshall Islands are still battling today with the devastation to their homes, cultures, and land and the United States still needs to take complete responsibility of it and put in the right amount of money and effort into helping clean up the islands and righting the wrongs.