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Top Prosecutors Back Compensation for Those Sickened by US Nuclear Weapons Testing
KOB4 ^ | August 30, 2023 | Susan Montoya Bryan

Posted on 08/31/2023 1:16:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez and 13 other top prosecutors from around the U.S. are throwing their support behind efforts to compensate people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing.

The Democratic officials sent a letter Wednesday to congressional leaders, saying “it’s time for the federal government to give back to those who sacrificed so much.”

The letter refers to the estimated half a million people who lived within a 150-mile (240-kilometer) radius of the Trinity Test site in southern New Mexico, where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945. It also pointed to thousands of people in Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Montana and Guam who currently are not eligible under the existing compensation program. The U.S. Senate voted recently to expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act as part of a massive defense spending bill. Supporters are hopeful the U.S. House will include the provisions in its version of the bill, and President Joe Biden has indicated his support.

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1 posted on 08/31/2023 1:16:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Not more of this crap again. MORE FREE MONEY.

MORE OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY.


2 posted on 08/31/2023 1:18:24 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s mighty kind of them since the government caused all that in the first place


3 posted on 08/31/2023 1:20:43 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: nickcarraway

Nothing politicians like better than playing Santa Claus.

Nothing lawyers like better than getting a cut of that.


4 posted on 08/31/2023 1:32:29 PM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: nickcarraway

As a lad in the 50s I spent summers in Southern Idaho. Locals commented on the ‘strange weather’ after atomic tests. When do I get my check?


5 posted on 08/31/2023 1:41:46 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: nickcarraway

A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945:

https://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY


6 posted on 08/31/2023 2:00:36 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: House Atreides

MORE DEMOCRAT VOTE BUYING!


7 posted on 08/31/2023 2:13:09 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: nickcarraway

Clearly this must mean that all the affected people are dead now.

They’ve slow-walked this one to the inevitable conclusion.


8 posted on 08/31/2023 2:19:42 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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They were waiting for all the military guinea pigs to die off before admitting what they were guilty of, Marching young men into a blast zone just to see if they could. Govt, and f-—ng scientists = bad news!
9 posted on 08/31/2023 2:53:10 PM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: mabarker1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4VlruVG81w


10 posted on 08/31/2023 2:58:08 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

If the radiation has not killed them after 78 years then no money. If not dead then maybe we need a dose of it to live longer....


11 posted on 09/01/2023 7:45:34 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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