[The Turbanator]

Didn't we test a few A bombs in our own back yards about 50 years ago, and some above ground?

Radiation is so over rated, I don't see people in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, dropping like flys.

[Rutles4Ever]

That was in the sparse desert. Chernobyl wasn't exactly a nuclear explosion, but enough of a radiation leak can do tremendous harm. Unfortunately, the biggest loser, no matter what the outcome, remains the average citizen of N. Korea. And any kind of ensuing human catastrophe would probably not make it to the eyes and ears of the rest of the world.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

Radiation is so over rated, I don't see people in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, dropping like flys.

St. George, Utah and vicinity had one of the highest cancer rates in the country from the late 1950s to the early 1990s. It's directly downwind of the Nevada Test Site.

[Yaelle]

Radiation is so over rated, I don't see people in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, dropping like flys.

Didn't a lot of actors filming westerns in the area of the desert test sites later all get cancer and die prematurely? Bonanza actors, etc?

[jblair]

Radiation is so over rated, I don't see people in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, dropping like flys

Not so fast on the overrated. It has always been my contention that John Holmes was born and raised near one of those locations.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Tell that to Chernobyl-ites and hibakusha in Hiro and Naga.