Forty miles upwind to Manhattan at a missile facility, a nuke warhead -- a plutonium-based warhead -- once caught fire ...
On June 7, 1960, a non-nuclear explosion and fire occurred in BOMARC Missile Shelter 204. The fire burned uncontrolled for about 30 minutes. The force of the explosion destroyed the missile, its plutonium-containing warhead, and portions of the shelter ... see http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/bomarc-missle-site-46th-adms/How much plutonium was released? Guesses range from 1 to 15 kilograms according to web reports. Number of deaths: none reported.
The dangers of plutonium are real, but hysteria overstates them.
Trying to get people to wake up is not hysteria.
When you can’t know for sure what is happening, because governments care more about appearances than telling their people the truth, that is a good reason to wonder about what little information DOES come out.