[larrytown]

A never-ending horror.

Fallout from that test starting the vast number of premature deaths that have plagued this country since. All the other open air testing that followed continued the tragedy.

I will dare say that those nuke tests have been the cause of more American premature deaths than the casualties of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Choking out from cancer over the decades isn’t as striking as shadows on stone walls and burn ward photos.

[Ciaphas Cain]

USA Today story: 80 years later, victims of ‘first atom bomb’ will soon be eligible for reparations

[Ditto]

Fallout from that test starting the vast number of premature deaths that have plagued this country since. All the other open air testing that followed continued the tragedy.

If that’s the case, why is life expediency 15 years greater today than in 1945?

[PeterPrinciple]

I will dare say that those nuke tests have been the cause of more American premature deaths than the casualties of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Choking out from cancer over the decades isn’t as striking as shadows on stone walls and burn ward photos.

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You are surrounded with radiation from many sources. But I might suggest we get that kind of information from the movies and tv?

https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-sources-and-doses

Average U.S. Doses and Sources
All of us are exposed to radiation every day, from natural sources such as minerals in the ground, and man-made sources such as medical x-rays. According to the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), the average annual radiation dose per person in the U.S. is 6.2 millisieverts (620 millirem)