Slater and John John and anybody else who has surfed the surrounding area may want to run themselves by a Geiger counter should they get the chance. You may remember, in fact, this trip with JJF from a few years back: Slater has been surfing there for at least a decade. This is, of course, a problem for all of humanity not just our little corner of the world as surfers, but surfers have discovered perfect reef pass surf nearby in recent years. “I’m like, how can it be ours?” said Hilda Heine, the Republic of the Marshall Islands’ President. “Nope,” they eventually decided, and let the Marshallese handle it. A problem because the Tomb has developed thousands of cracks over the decades and isn’t in any way watertight.Īccording to the Los Angeles Times, American officials have known since the Tomb was built in the 1970s that it was already leaking radioactive waste into the soil below and considered moving the material back to the US mainland.
Climate change is pushing tides ever higher on the Marshalls, and local officials there are bracing for the moment when the Tomb is partially beneath the waves.
As if the Marshall Islands haven’t been messed with enough by US government experiments. The Tomb is filled with the irradiated and germ-filled debris left behind…oh, and also a whole bunch of soil the US shipped over that we’d nuked into oblivion on our own turf.Īnd now it’s threatening to spill that wretched horridness into the sea. As if that wasn’t enough, they dropped biological weapons there too. Uncle Sam detonated nearly 70 nukes on the place during the early stages of the Cold War. One could posit that the US government must hate the Marshall Islands. But the truth is actually almost as weird-the Tomb is a basically giant trash can filled with soil that’s been nuked dozens of times and also been exposed to biological warfare tests. Ever hear of “the Tomb,” a cement bunker in the Marshall Islands? It looks like a flying saucer crashed into a reef atoll and half-buried itself. Sometimes it really seems like we’re actively trying to bring about sci-fi level visions of apocalyptic end times.