The 61st anniversary of the first Nevada above-ground tests is Jan. 27 and the anti-nuclear group will mark the day with an 8 a.m. candlelight vigil at the Boise Depot. Afterward, the group will meet at the nearby Shangri-La Tea Room from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., at the corner of Orchard Street and Federal Way.
Idahoans were hard-hit by the tests and Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, has been working for years to extend compensation available to victims in Utah, Nevada and Arizona under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. Four of the five most exposed counties in the nation were in Idaho, measured by iodine-131 fallout, which is connected to thyroid cancer.
"It is essential that people never forget the price paid for nuclear weapons production," said Liz Woodruff, executive director of the alliance. "People in Idaho have cancer and have died from cancer as a result of these tests. "The U.S. government cannot make up for their loss and suffering, but we can honor them on Jan. 27 and call for compensation for downwinders and their families."
Between 1945 and 1992, the government conducted 1,030 nuclear weapons tests. Of those, 911 were in Nevada, with 215 above ground.
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" people never forget the price paid for nuclear weapons production," said Liz Woodruff, executive director of the alliance. "People in Idaho have cancer and have died from cancer as a result of these tests"
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It's also important people never forget the lives SAVED by nuclear weapons production.
Compensation is a crock. No one knew the full risk and everyone was acting with good intentions with the goal of ending the war and then not having another with the Russians.
Sorry, but quit crying and expecting your government 'owes' you something. Be glad you are reading English right now instead of something else.
What's happened to the mantra, "ask not what your country owes, you but what you owe to your country"?
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They were well aware of the risks. Even the bombs in Japan were detonated in the air to minimize local fallout.
The people in these programs and doing the tests either did not care or were in a hurry.
It is unacceptable that Idaho is excluded from the downwinder program when we were one of the hardest hit states, not only from the NTS but also from Hanford.
How does that work anyway? Lots of naivety...
It sounds as if you think fallout is a controllable factor,
It ain't.
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So you are saying the powers that be said, "we're gonna detonate em in the air so the survivors downwind will suffer from thyroid cancer in a few years from now. That will be sure to bring the Japanese to a surrender"
Deciding to detonate bombs in the air and what elevation has NOTHING to do with minimizing or optimizing fallout.
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And so they all knew in 1951 that explosions in southern Nevada were gonna cause material to travel NORTH to Idaho and Montana.??? Got it. They must have been evil!
See this map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_fallout_exposure.png
Notice Ada County has less exposure than Valley County. Yes that makes perfect sense. It must be true evidence of a direct cause and effect.
And of course they all knew what would happen.
That's why the Hanford folks said, "Hey let's release this into the water and the aire so it can kill our neighbors. we will have nuclear power at any expense!"
You mean to be sarcastic and can't get past the 2nd a,
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