The Navy released millions of gallons of radioactive waste into Pearl Harbor

Evidence

The Navy itself acknowledges releasing some 4,843,000 gallons of radioactive liquid waste into Pearl Harbor from its submarines between 1964 and 1973. Similarly, the Navy dumped over 2,000 55- gallon steel drums of solid radioactive waste 55 miles off the Hawaiian shoreline onto the ocean floor. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 863

Categorization

  • XREF: Echoes the military-toxic-waste pattern on Indigenous land from Guam, Shoshone fallout, and nuclear siting in earlier chapters — military contamination as a recurring eco-justice theme. — connects to: Navy hid a 1988 radioactive reactor water discharge in Guam’s harbor; Navy dumped two million pounds of military waste on Vieques, contaminating people and soil

Broader Connections