[redhead]

"OTOH, my wife grew up Central Utah, downwind from the Nevada Test Site and had lost fully half of her graduating classes (of 1972) by 1986 to various cancers (Lung, thyroid, bone, ovarian, etc). As always, YMMV."

Yep. My sister (freeper monkey face) and I are Downwinders, too, and grew up in Central Utah during the entire decade of the Fifties. We all have ovarian and endocrine/thyroid problems, and I am a breast cancer survivor. We were given potassium iodide tablets in school for years, monthly, as I recall. "Chocolate" flavored, 1 tablet for little kids, 2 for older students.

[Westlander]

Cool. Did they have almonds in them?

[Calvin Locke]

I once worked with a guy that was born with a cleft palate.

His father was one of the Army personnel that was subjected to a nuclear test blast. His father suffered all sorts of health problems later in life.

(I don't remember the details, that job being about twenty-five years ago.)