Posted on 02/07/2007 3:24:23 AM PST by Flavius
ST. GEORGE, Utah -- When the baby boomers of St. George were children, radioactive ash from nuclear test explosions in Nevada regularly drifted toward the red bluffs of their town and fell like snow. They played in it and wrote their names in it on car windows.
The federal government reassured the townspeople they were in no danger as it detonated 952 bombs in Nevada over four decades. But thousands of people who lived downwind of the test site got radiation-related cancer, and the town of 50,000 has its own cancer-treatment center today.
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I am a downwinder. I haven't got cancer yet.
Sounds like someone in Defense is trying to send someone else a message. A 700 ton bomb will probably not be dropped by a stealth fighter.
A 700 ton bomb would be about the right size to produce the same amount of boom as the North Korean nuke fizzle. Maybe they're trying to see if Chia Head was faking it.
Is she from Filmore? or Delta? Those would be the only two towns large enough to have 82 kids.
I'm from Panguitch, we had 28 graduating...
My father died of prostate cancer, but it wasn't due to downwind (we know that because it isn't one of the cancers covered.)
It is strange that all five of the men who worked on his Forest Service deforestation crew died of prostate cancer 30 to 40 years after spraying agent-orange type stuff on the undergrowth.
You forget Hickley, and Oak City....
I had a guy I worked with in the AF that flew the Ranchhand missions on a C119. His uniform was usually soaked with the stuff.
He is still kicking.
Everything you get exposed to at some point will kill you - radiation and lead seem to lead the pack in early exits tho....
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