Speaking of genetic MUTATIONS, the USA government-corporations-military's mass bio-Genocide by uranium/plutonium radiation of MILLIONS OF ITS OWN PEOPLE, AMERICANS domestically by nuclear bombs testing in the western United States, with prevailing winds carrying it eastward across the rest of the country (and Canada and Mexico/the Caribbean nations).
Not just MILLIONS of cancer deaths but birth deformities and other chronic illnesses also:
Liberation Angel (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-21-09 02:41 PM
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Cold War Remnant: Cancer for Baby Boomers
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Walter Shapiro
Cold War Remnant: Cancer for Baby BoomersEven with a half-century's hindsight, the U.S. government's willingness to risk the
health of the nation's children seems somewhere between unfathomable and unconscionable.
Between 1951 and 1962, the Atomic Energy Commission detonated more than 100 nuclear bombs in the atmosphere over its Nevada Test Site, just 65 miles from Las Vegas. The radioactive fallout menaced not only the ranchers and the miners unlucky enough to live in that remote area of southern Nevada, but -- as a new study unveiled Tuesday demonstrated -- untold millions of unsuspecting Americans as well. The winds carried Strontium-90, Iodine-129 and other lethal particles across a broad swath of the country. Infants who were bottle-fed, which was then considered the modern approach, were particularly vulnerable to the Strontium-90 that ended up in cows' milk.
In 1961, as John Kennedy was poised to resume atmospheric testing after a two-year moratorium, he met with White House science adviser Jerome Wiesner in the Oval Office one rainy day. The president wondered how fallout reached the earth. Wiesner explained that it was washed out of the clouds by rain. "You mean," Kennedy asked, "it's in the rain out there?" As Wiesner tells it, the president then "looked out the window, looked very sad and didn't say a word for several minutes." Nonetheless JFK, fearful that the Soviet Union might score a nuclear breakthrough, authorized a new round of above-ground testing before negotiating the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963.
With Nov. 9, 2009 ["9-11" also the anniversary of "Kristallncaht the Night of Broken GlaSS" 1938 the start of the Holocuast and also an official Nazi Germany top sacred memorial holiday and martyr's day to commemorate Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch coup in Munich, Nov. 9 9/11 1923, which in turn was taken by the Stanist Nazis as their 1923 date probably because of the "9-11" significance to the Jewish "Ninth of Av" "9-11" day of mourning of the DOUBLE loss of the Jerusalem temples 500 years apart]]"marking
the 20th anniversary of the breaching of the Berlin Wall, Cold War retrospectives are again in season. But the grim legacy of nuclear testing is apt to be lost amid the memories of Josef Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, the Berlin airlift, the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ronald Reagan's famed exhortation at the Brandenburg Gate.
The mushroom clouds over the Nevada desert seem so long ago, so devoid of any real-world consequences. But a study released Tuesday documents the enhanced cancer risk that Baby Boomers face because of these long-ago atmospheric tests. Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano analyzed the lingering radiation in infant teeth (donated long ago by the parents of baby boys born in the St. Louis area between 1959 and 1961) and compared the results to contemporary cancer data from the subjects. "What we found out was shocking," Mangano said. "Persons who had died of cancer had more than double the Strontium-90 in their (baby) teeth than did healthy persons." The original variance in Strontium-90 levels among individuals, he explained, was caused by seemingly small factors such as how much milk expectant mothers drank, diet and the source of the municipal water supply.
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Simply Horrifying.
For those who were living during this era, it explains a lot of today's cancers.
For those whose parents or loved ones were born and exposed to this radiation, it explains a lot as well.
It is also one more reason not to trust the Nuclear Industry when it says emissions of radio-iodine and Strontium 90 from commercial reactors are safe.
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Cold War Remnant: Cancer for Baby Boomers Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 02:41 PM #0
Here's the thing...just like "oil feeds my family"...many of us were... Tikki Oct-21-09 02:51 PM #1
I remember milk getting dumped ramapo Oct-21-09 03:02 PM #2
I also remember playing with tar bubbles intheflow Oct-21-09 03:26 PM #6
Other toxic memories ramapo Oct-21-09 03:55 PM #12
I'd forgotten about the DDT spraying! intheflow Oct-21-09 04:22 PM #19
We had "tar bubbles" on our playground. Tansy_Gold Oct-21-09 04:42 PM #23
So we really should have single payer, since the government is responsible AndyA Oct-21-09 03:14 PM #3
That is a damn good point. We should have FREE health care. Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 05:46 PM #25
Are reparations in order? Mulehead Oct-21-09 03:18 PM #4
Baby teeth lock in strontium -90 as it is a calcium mimic and is absorbed by teeth and bones Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 06:07 PM #27
Not to mention us "Downwinders" BlueIdaho Oct-21-09 03:22 PM #5
I think the point of the OP is that there are a lot of people living hedgehog Oct-21-09 06:48 PM #30
Wow - that's amazing Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 07:02 PM #32
My husband, who lived south of Bufalo at the time, recalls being warned hedgehog Oct-21-09 07:21 PM #37
I always wondered about this, PJPhreak Oct-21-09 03:27 PM #7
I also suspect the high number of thyroid problems are traceable juno jones Oct-21-09 03:28 PM #8
My wife has a bad thyroid ramapo Oct-21-09 03:56 PM #13
My entire family has thyroid issues and we are "downwinders" Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 04:08 PM #17
Even Fox News Reported on increases in Thyroid Cancers near nuclear plants Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 04:03 PM #16
I was/am? part of the St. Louis baby teeth study darkstar Oct-21-09 03:36 PM #9
That is really interesting information everyone should know about Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 07:17 PM #35
What about the 300 tons of depleted uranium used in Gulf War I and 1500 tons used in Gulf War II Rozlee Oct-21-09 03:39 PM #10
I don't think you are a "loony conspiracist." History--true history, not the refurbished kind--has Raster Oct-21-09 04:28 PM #20
Casualties ARE a primary concern: Casualty Production by radiological agents is... Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 05:12 PM #24
I grew up in Southeast Arizona. I personally knew persons that EVERY YEAR Raster Oct-21-09 08:50 PM #50
maybe this explains it CountAllVotes Oct-21-09 03:41 PM #11
I lost three female cousins (brain cancer) - two were in their early forties. Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 04:15 PM #18
thank you CountAllVotes Oct-21-09 04:34 PM #21
When I was 11 years old I developed a huge goiter on my neck Mari333 Oct-21-09 03:59 PM #14
When all is said and done KT2000 Oct-21-09 03:59 PM #15
Here is one study showing more than 60 Million cancer deaths from nuclear ... Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 05:59 PM #26
Wow - thanks for this KT2000 Oct-21-09 07:55 PM #45
The Nuke industry CANNOT afford to have this info publicly acknowledged Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 08:15 PM #47
You can check your own estimated I-131 exposure here (link) (National Cancer Institute site Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 04:36 PM #22
One reason Strontium 90 is so scarydangerous is it mimics Calcium and is absorbed by bones and teeth Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 06:11 PM #28
Right...that's exactly why they wanted the teeth darkstar Oct-21-09 07:21 PM #36
Radiation is absorbed into the teeth in utero Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 07:54 PM #44
Tihs has been the most educational thread I've read on DU today. I had NO IDEA catzies Oct-21-09 06:40 PM #29
Many many who've died of cancer were killed by the US nuke program Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 08:04 PM #46
I think that generally speaking, it's hard to point to one person with thyroid hedgehog Oct-21-09 06:54 PM #31
Pretty much almost all thyroid cancer is caused by radiation Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 07:08 PM #33
Have you ever seen information about the loss of thyroid function hedgehog Oct-21-09 07:15 PM #34
I believe there are studies on it at Mangano's website Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 07:24 PM #38
Thank you. Given the number of different toxic exposures hedgehog Oct-21-09 07:33 PM #40
It is not so hard to prove epidemiologically - but the Nuke industry Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 07:46 PM #42
Info on Thyroid damage (link) Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 07:37 PM #41
I've been aware of this for some time, but until now I've never made this connection. hedgehog Oct-21-09 07:28 PM #39
Probably, based on the odds...I am sorry... Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 07:50 PM #43
My dad remembers when they were told to "stay inside for a few days" AwakeAtLast Oct-21-09 08:16 PM #48
Were YOU exposed? Find out here (link) if you got DOSED by nuke tests Liberation Angel Oct-21-09 08:17 PM #49