[Proud2BeRight]

Wonder how much radiation floated around when years of above ground nuke tests were being done?

[Zathras]

Levels were MUCH higher.
It was high enough that scientists could do an est yield based on the decay patterns.

[Battle Axe]

I was raised in Modoc Co. California, not too far from Nevada. One morning when I was about 12 years old, Dad got us up very early and said we are going to watch the atom blast test. He calculated the direction it should come from and we stood on the front porch facing that direction. He thought we would see some light, but the minutes ticked by and we saw nothing and we went back to bed.

About 6 years later my thyroid pretty much died and I was put on synthroid and was on it for 33 years. Gradually I was weaned off and no longer take it. Mom's thyroid began to grow rapidly and she had to have it killed with of all things a nuclear pill. It didn't kill all of it, but what it left her with was just the right amount and they released her from Dr.s care. She died at 86 from a broken heart because Dad had died at 89 from a stroke.

Just this past week I was told by a biofeedback naturopath that I am teeming with radiation.

[Tijeras_Slim]

St. George was close enough to the NTS that they could see and sometimes hear the atmospheric tests. They were directly under the path of the debris cloud and fallout. On the Nancy Shot of the Upshot-Knothole Series (1953) Salt Lake City recorded over 10K cpm following this single test.

The John Wayne film “The Conquerer” was filmed near St. George, and tons of the dirt were brought back for scenes filmed on a sound stage. A ton of people on that movie died of cancer.

[lucky american]

Maybe that’s why everyone I know has cancer?

[familyop]

"Wonder how much radiation floated around when years of above ground nuke tests were being done?"

Yep. That's a good point. Those of us who've lived in the U.S.A. through most of those tests still have only one head, two eyes, two hands, etc. And if we exercise enough, we can live plenty long.

The posted piece is hysteria from socialist crooks.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hysteria \Hys*te"ri*a\, n. [NL.: cf. F. hyst['e]rie. See
     Hysteric.] (Med.)
     A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women,
     in which the emotional and reflex excitability is
     exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished,
     so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes
     the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into
     paroxism or fits.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The chief symptoms are convulsive, tossing movements of
           the limbs and head, uncontrollable crying and laughing,
           and a choking sensation as if a ball were lodged in the
           throat. The affection presents the most varied
           symptoms, often simulating those of the gravest
           diseases, but generally curable by mental treatment
           alone. Hysteric