I was approximately 60 miles from Trinity Site in NM on that day in August 1945. So far, so good.
Frank From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Scott R. Powell Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 3:42 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Semipalatinsk and Los Alamos And maybe a couple of the Manhattan Project scientists. Jochen, only one weapon was ever detonated in New Mexico, in 1945. Many more were tested in Nevada in the 1950s and the fallout from those tests did cause cancers, notably leukemia, most visibly in Utah. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site If you're interested in controversy, the website of the Los Alamos Study Group affords plenty of one-sided controversy - http://www.lasg.org/ This is a video compilation of all known nuclear weapon detonations from 1945 to 1998 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfpQNfcRE1o <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfpQNfcRE1o&feature=player_embedded> &feature=player_embedded Mit freundlichem Gruß Scott Powell On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: The principal nuclear bomb casualties in New Mexico, that I'm aware of, were Navajo Uranium miners and their families. -- rec -- On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Jochen Fromm <jfr...@t-online.de> wrote: Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan was a primary testing area for the nuclear weapons of the Soviet Union. It is similar to the Trinity Site (now the White Sands Missile Range) near Los Alamos and Santa Fe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipalatinsk_Test_Site Here the Americans set off their first atomic bomb, at Semipalatinsk, the Soviets set off their first nuclear bomb. They built a secret city 60 km away from the testing grounds (the former research center Semipalatinsk-21, now Kurchatov), similar to Los Alamos. Today, the people near Semipalatinsk still suffer from the effects of radiation, the incidence of cancer and cancer mortality has increased. Is this a problem in New Mexico as well? Is it a controversial topic in Santa Fe? -J. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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