Marzo 1954, Isole Marshall, Oceano Pacifico, Yoshio Misaki su una tonnara giapponese assiste a uno strano spettacolo: un sole che sorge
a ovest. Ma non si tratta di un sole ma della luce prodotta dall’esplosione nucleare di un test americano effettuato in prossimità
dell’atollo Bikini a 85 miglia a ovest della tonnara. La nube radioattiva raggiunge la tonnara e il vicino atollo di Rongelap. E nessun civile è stato avvertito. Che conseguenze avrà questo drammatico episodio sul rapporto tra scienza e società?
Atollo di Bikini, la cicatrice della bomba atomica
Primary tabs
prossimo articolo
Responsibility for the damages caused by climate change and attribution science

Disputes and legal actions concerning climate change are on the rise, as are those aimed at obtaining compensation for damages caused by specific atmospheric events from parties believed to be responsible. This is a result of the findings of attribution science, a discipline aimed at clarifying the causal relationship between the occurrence of extreme weather events and climate change.
Image credits: Markus Spiske on Unsplash
In an article from ten years ago, addressing the issue of climate litigations, the legal disputes concerning climate change, the author noted that most of them were brought against governments to introduce limits or controls on greenhouse gas emitting activities or against companies involved in their production (especially oil multinationals) to comply with existing regulations.