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?
And like I said before, if there was a massive nuclear exchange near populated areas, it would cause hundreds of thousands of deaths in the coming years, but the testing in the 50s and 60s were in the uninhabited Pacific, and the American deserts, far from populated areas, so there were no hundreds of thousands to be effected. By the time the radiation from one low yield explosion every few months got to a large population center, if it did, it would have dispersed to the point of being non-lethal as it moves on. As I said before, I'm talking about a large exchange of several, ten or more even, deliberately detonated in population centers which would kill many in the blast, and then kill more in the populated areas near the blast, as the radiation sweeps through the area with the prevailing winds. I don't know why you're wanting to argue with me on this. I'm not saying anything controversial or unscientific. This is all well established science, and frankly, much "older" than you thought this article was. I have nothing to gain from being right on this, I wish that wasn't how it was. But it is.