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To: oceanview
Incorrect? So you're telling me that there were not hundreds of thousands of people in Japan who got cancer and other diseases who were not in the blast zones, and how suddenly in the later generations, people who lived in those areas suddenly had huge increases in cancer are not true? Or the military personnel who were in close proximity after nuclear blasts that were exposed to the lingering radiation didn't die? I am telling you, it is a known scientific fact that after several nuclear detonations, the radioactive cloud from them would drift with the wind currents, and in the decades to come, would cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people by causing terminal cases of cancer that they otherwise would not have had.

Gamma radiation is a vicious unforgiving monster and it takes months or years to dissipate in the atmosphere and even just a few blasts, even from tactical warheads, not strategic city-buster type warheads, would drift around, and anyone in their path if they hover for a while, would be effected months or years later. If there had ever been a full out maximum exchange between the U.S. and Soviet Union, and the U.K., France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan if they used theirs also, with a maximum spread focused on population centers on all sides, that radiation cloud from those hundreds or thousands of separate detonations would drift all around the world with the wind currents, and anyone not killed by the blasts, or from the subsequent lack of safe water or food, would die in the years to come as all that radiation circled the globe. Gamma radiation doesn't just fade in hours or days. A few or more detonations would kill hundreds or thousands in the years to come, even a decade or more. It would be deaths from cancer or deformations, but what caused those cancers and deformations would be that radioactive soup that drifted invisibly with the winds after the actual explosions. It’s scientific fact which has been proven after 60 years of post Manhattan Project testing and research. The more detonations, the more people will die years later from the after effects, depending on the wind currents and yield of the fission devices detonated. I don't understand why, but you seem determined to tell me nothing I say is correct. I know what I'm talking about.

37 posted on 01/02/2006 7:17:56 PM PST by TexasPatriot8 (Vote Republican. A conservative America, for a better future.)
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To: TexasPatriot8

yes - "in those areas" or "in the blast zones".

are you claiming that nuclear testing in the 50s and 60s directly "killed hundreds of thousands" around the world from fallout?


39 posted on 01/02/2006 7:25:05 PM PST by oceanview
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