We should also take into account the many Sandia scientists and
technicians that were part of the Pacific tests. I don't know what has
been documented about them but when I first moved to NM in the late
70's. I met a number of them. They all seemed to believe that many of
their coworkers had died from cancer or had cancer but were reluctant
to seek any publicity as they saw their activities as a patriotic act
that was important and did not fault the government for not giving
them adequate protection from the blasts.
Ed
On Oct 12, 2010, at 3:41 PM, Scott R. Powell wrote:
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&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.
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