Interesting fact for all scared of radiation.
From official French Gov. web site:
The excess mortality from cancers is obtained by comparing survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a control population. There is a significant excess at all ages, on average 5%: 7578 cancer deaths compared to 7244 for the control population, i.e. an excess of 334. The observation period is from 1950 to 1986.
What it means, that practically all dead from atomic bombs died from the explosion and heat generated by the bombs.
Only about 334 (statistically) survivors died later on from radiation exposure!
More radiation covered Japan from the Red Chinese and Russian nuclear experimental testing than from the bombs from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Before the release of reconnaissance data from the USAF testing the clouds the Japanese in the early 1990’s were clamoring for restitution for the cancer that was affecting the citizens. Since I wasn’t sworn to secrecy and I was at Yokota AFB with my Father as a child, I remembered the squadrons and the results of the RB-57 overflights into the radiation clouds. I called the Commander of the American Legion and gave him the information and with that he was able to shut up the State Department from bending to the Japanese demands. In 2001 the data and overflights into the PRC and Soviet Union were declassified and the information is readily available. In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s radiation from these tests was so high we were not allowed to go outside for weeks.
Go up and talk to the folks around St George Utah, AZ Strip, and the Indian reservations. At St George, they used to hang radiation detectors on the high school kids, and others, and come back to collect them. The exposure was extremely high. It reflected in the cancer rates over the years after.
And funny thing Jeep..they managed to exclude all of Clark Co NV and Mohave CO from the downwind scandal.
They used to let school out to watch the mushroom clouds around Kingman AZ.
The US government purposely killed thousands and thousands of citizens with its ignorance.
Another great prime example is the Castle Bravo test that got way out of hand.