You have to see this short by the Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto (1959): Nuclear Detonation Timeline "1945-1998", chronology of nuclear explosions. Hashimoto has explained on the map of the planet the 2,053 atomic explosions that have occurred between 1998 and 1998, with one light and one sound for each. For ten minutes, all tests and all accidents will explode with the sound of the code morse: 1,032 from the United States, 715 from the Soviet Union, 210 from France, 45 from Britain, 45 from China, 4 from India and 2 from Pakistan. There will be none, let it be from Israel.

Who can argue that all these explosions, plus other less spectacular nuclear emissions, have had no impact on the health of the people of the world? And yet the bombers have managed to recycle it in civilian atomic power plants to harness the technology of military reactors through the propaganda of atoms for peace.

To this end, the atom’s promoters have been forced to cover the risks and damage associated with atomic energy. In order to open a shudder to the hidden truth at the end of 2011, in the year of the Fukushima disaster, some twenty European intellectuals have proposed to set up an international tribunal to try those responsible for the nuclear.

15 personalities have signed the Pour un tribunal Russell contre les crimes du nucléaire civil in the new magazine Les z’indigné. Among the signatories are Serge Latouche, one of the leading thinkers, former minister Corinne Lapage, anthropologist Alain Gras and Labour and writer Pierre Rabhi, known for agronecaciation.

According to intellectuals, the first major step in the use of atomic energy on 6 August 1945, when the U.S. army launched the Hiroshiman Little boy bomb, a special leap was marked by the Chernobyl disaster on 26 April 1986.

When reactor 4 broke out at the Lenin plant in Chernobyl, the disintegration of its atomic fuel not only poured out polluted gases and aerosols, as the previous bombs had done, but on this occasion solid hot particles were dispersed which, if incorporated into the organisms of living beings, cause large internal radiations.

Chernobyl has shown that the long-term effects of pollution are followed by the effects of large radiation from the first moment. Particles have dispersed hundreds or thousands of kilometres from the area of the explosion. And within the ecosystem, the isotopes migrate: with rain to the earth, with the plants to the surface, within the animals from one side to the other ...

Programmed concealment of truth

Although the experts do not agree with the measures of damage caused by Chernobyl, the damage caused by radiation to human bone meat has long been described. It affects the entire endocrine system, sinking the hormonal system. From there, it is known that the disease of the traffic organs killed many of the liquidators who were sacrificed to stabilize the Ukrainian power plant, has led to premature ageing of the surrounding population, the thousands of tonnes of lead used to refrigerate the Chernobyl radioactive furnace has caused saturnism to many more.

But if in the days after the explosion there were many episodes of irradiation, much greater than those in Hiroshima, millions more people will be born and live on land that will pollute for 300 years the 90 strontium and 137 cedar trees, poisoned for thousands of years by plutonium and americium. From generation to generation.

The signatories of the document, Pour un Tribunal Russell, have denounced that the global authorities have hidden the consequences of the events. Adequate measurements of Chernobyl pollution have not been organised in Europe and that information has been lost forever. The expert groups that organized themselves to study the pathologies they suffer have been dismantled by the Police. Too many doctors and scientists were being sought to prosecute and imprison them. The health of liquidators has not been closely monitored. Those who have dedicated themselves to epidemiology concluded that in total it has caused one million deaths, including Yablokov, Nesterenko and others, have been despised and abandoned without help.

"Chernobyl has left a hole in the symbolic memory of human beings," they wrote in the statement. As no one knows when an atomic catastrophe ends, “there is no single culture to deal with that wager.”

The first major fraud involving the atom took place in Japan, following the bombs in Hiro­shima and Nagasi. The United States Army organized a special team there to study the effects of radiation, but, after the recognition of the Japanese losing government, its knowledge has remained secret for decades.

Recently, French television has offered Blessures atomiques (atomic wounds) by Marc Petitjean, with terrible images and information that had hitherto remained hidden. It is available on the Internet in the blog Le web 2 zéro, in French. In view of this, it is noted that from Nagasaki the atom’s promoters were well aware of the long-term damage... What we're seeing around Chernobyl since 1986. However, they continued.

But in the event of the Chernobyl, and this has happened in Fukushima, more seriously, the then Soviet advantage cannot be used: to mobilize 800,000 liquidators and thousands of sufficient workers and soldiers to the order of the Secretary General of the Single Party. “In a liberal democracy, few volunteers will be willing to die among such severe sufferings,” they say in the statement.

Hanna Arendt explained with the concept of “the banality of evil” that crimes against humanity are committed for lack of questions about the objectives of what ordinary people do, for blindly following the authorities. In the view of those who call for the organization of the Russell Court of the Civil Atom, in the rich West the banalization of evil has become widespread and political systems have become a democratic totalitarianism that leads societies to their perpetual destruction.

That is why they have proposed a new court, such as the one that the United States organised in 1966 to try the crimes that were committed in Vietnam. Since then, there have been more similar cases of the coup d'état in Chile, the war in Iraq and Palestine. This should be judging those of Chernobyl and Fukushima ... Not forgetting the Fallujah.