Dismantling the atomic lie

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Dismantling the atomic lie

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By Linda Pentz Gunter June 9, 2024 Posted on June 9, 2024 by beyondnuclearinternational

The forgotten faces on the uranium trail

What follows is an edited version of my talk given during the Nuclear Energy Conference 2021 entitled How to dismantle an atomic lie, hosted by Atomstopp from Linz, Austria. The presentation can also be viewed in the YouTube window in this article.

EXCERPT: "My favorite piece of fictional writing of all time is the play for voices, Under Milk Wood by the Welsh writer, Dylan Thomas. It opens like this: “To begin at the beginning”.

If you want to put human faces to the story of nuclear power, you have to begin at the beginning. That’s why those who continue to promote nuclear power never begin at the beginning. Because if they do, they meet the faces of the people who are the first witnesses to the fundamentally anti-humanitarian nature of the nuclear age.

When we begin at the beginning, what do we find? We find uranium. We find people. And we find suffering. . . . .

"We are seeing a genocide. Because a genocide is not just a massacre. A genocide is also the erasure of a people culturally. It is the destruction of a way of life, often also a language, a belief system. . . . . "

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