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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video looking at Americ's 1971 nuclear test on Amchitka Island in Alaska, a test of the W-71 warhead. We examine why the island was chosen, the short term impacts of the test as well as the long term impacts, both on the environment and on wider society, including opposition to the test giving birth to the modern environmental movement. Soviet Criminal Underworld: https://youtu.be/zEJrivfLKGc Project Iceworm: Nukes Under the Ice: https://youtu.be/ePT8gp0LKsk Haiti and the Dominican Republic: https://youtu.be/apgYxvtDFQY Red Army Faction: https://youtu.be/wgYfTQJYCkI Colonial Indochina to 1945: https://youtu.be/uijOG8oYHgo First Indochina War pt. 1 GUERILLA: https://youtu.be/V9wSqx0W8h0 First Indochina War pt. 2 INTERNATIONALIZATION: https://youtu.be/58PAc7zAtSg Alcohol Prohibition in the USSR https://youtu.be/kyPdGderIxk Cocaine and Cartels: https://youtu.be/A9VA51N-Ug4 International Terrorism: https://youtu.be/VqHMjA35aLM Liberation Theology: https://youtu.be/Dfu2I_LTKt4 Iranian Nuclear Program: https://youtu.be/ZrNNeS31lNg Angela Davis: https://youtu.be/VMzpkYg6wOY The School of the Americas: https://youtu.be/3tYwj-7b_jU Birth of the Military Industrial Complex: https://youtu.be/8glmBbBENlk America's Secret Nuclear Disaster: https://youtu.be/iXSSCdlTst4 How Nuclear Deterrence Theory developed: https://youtu.be/UHIsdbvsuOY How the American Political Parties Switched Their Ideologies https://youtu.be/SdcreXEWzG0 How the RAND Corporation created American strategy: https://youtu.be/J1mH_O7MzJk The Nuclear Wannabes: Sweden, Brazil and Argentina: https://youtu.be/1LpL6Q1s7TA Israel: the Officially Unofficial Nuclear State: https://youtu.be/dcXSkpRDp2k Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Operation Paperclip: https://youtu.be/17cNgMpBiWw German Expulsions: https://youtu.be/zyWx4p4hiaY Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #Amchitka #nuclear #nucleartest #greenpeace #envrionment #environmentlamovement #nuke #atomic #nucleartest **SOURCES** https://www.cresp.org/Amchitka/plan/ApprovedAmchitkaSciencePlan.pdf https://www.military.com/video/nuclear-bombs/nuclear-weapons/cannikin-nuclear-test-footage/1402452751001 https://www.cresp.org/Amchitka/Amchitka_Final_Report/finalreport/chapters/02_Amchitka%20chapter%202_F7_25_05.pdf https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-v13-i1-c11.htm https://nuclearprinceton.princeton.edu/amchitka-island https://www.gi.alaska.edu/alaska-science-forum/unknown-legacy-alaskas-atomic-tests https://www.uaf.edu/news/archives/news-archives-2002-2010/featured/06/amchitka/index2.php https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/the-story-project-cannikin-1971-the-us-miltiary-nuked-alaska-21564 https://www.uaf.edu/news/archives/news-archives-2002-2010/featured/06/amchitka/index2.php https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/a-history-of-nuclear-testing-in-the-pacific-and-the-successful-campaign-to-stop-it https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/abs/amchitka-island-alaska-moving-towards-long-term-stewardship/1485F27701CD26BAC2D2569543EE94FB