[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "The bombing of Kaho'olawe [HI] went on for decades. The clean-up will last generations"

[Lenny Siegel]

The bombing of Kaho'olawe went on for decades. The clean-up will last generations

By Lacy Deniz
Hawaii News Now
February 27, 2018,

After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States declared martial law in Hawaii.

And Kaho’olawe, a place considered sacred to Native Hawaiians, was transformed into a bombing range.

Weapons testing started almost immediately with ship-to-shore bombardment and, later with American submarines testing torpedoes by firing them at shoreline cliffs.

Over the decades, the wars changed but bombing continued.

In 1965, the infamous "Sailor Hat" tests were conducted on the island: Three tests of 500 tons of TNT were detonated to simulate the blast effects of nuclear weapons on shipboard weapon systems.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/37604472/the-bombing-of-kahoolawe-went-on-for-decades-clean-up-will-take-generations

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org