20 Radioactive Dangers We All Face

1. Nuclear reactors crashing on Earth from space 
and fallout from:
2. Pacific nuclear testing
3. the Nevada Test Site
4. High-altitude nuclear tests 
5. Project Rulison
6. Mighty Oak nuclear test
7. North Korea's nuclear tests
8. Global nuclear testing
9.  'Project 57' (Area 13) 
10. Trinity, WSMR & Steel

11. Hanford & INL & LANL
12. Nuclear Power
13. DTRA's Divine Strake's babies 
14. Fallout resuspension: Milford Flat Fire 
15. Australia's fallout and duststorms
16. Hiroshima & Nagasaki
-and-
17. Low-level radiation impacted viruses
18. Radioactivity in drywall (dust) 
19. Nuclear waste transport
20. Greenham Common

       

Trivia questions

1: The National Cancer Institute was ordered by Congress in 1983 to investigate the health impacts of radioactive Iodine-131 exposure from U.S. atmospheric atomic testing. When was that report first released to the public?   

(a) 1986, (b) 1991 , (c) 1993, (d) 1997  background info

2: About how many counties in the 'lower' United States were hit with Nevada testing fallout?  

(a) 20, (b) 50 (c) 1500, (d) 3000  background info

3: About how many nuclear bombs were detonated at the Nevada Test Site from 1951 to 1992?  

(a) 13, (b) 100 , (c) 1,000, (d) none, but it is reserved for any testing, if needed; background info

4: When was the plutonium lying on the ground of the Nevada Test Site from 1950s and 1960s Plutonium Dispersal Experiments cleaned up?  

(a) 1958, (b) 1992 , (c) 2005, (d) it hasn't been fully cleaned up.  background info

5: Which of the following groups isn't eligible under RECA?  

(a) uranium miners, (b) Northern Utah downwinders , (c) test site workers, (d) Southern Utah downwinders.  background info

6: What was the size of the proposed Divine Strake explosion?  

(a) 7 pounds, (b) 700 pounds, (c) 7 tons, (d) 700 tons.  background info

Trivia answers found here


More trivia: Have you heard the story about John Wayne, who quite possibly - like a few dozen of his co-actors - received a fatal dose of radioactive Nevada poison which fell the year before - it was lingering/residual fallout - on a film shoot in Southern Utah in the 1950s?  Or, the story about JFK?  In the book A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, author Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. tells of a fascinating episode in JFK's presidency:  'Jerome Wiesner, his Science Adviser, reminded him one drizzling day how rain washed radioactive debris from the clouds and brought it down to the earth.  Kennedy, looking out the window, said, "You mean that stuff is in the rain out there?"  Wiesner said, "Yes."  The President continued gazing out the window, deep sadness on his face, and did not say a word for several minutes.' (p. 455) 

Idealist's public document archives: 1. Documents 2. Documents

U.S. NUCLEAR tests: 128 A + 899 U in NV,
1 A in NM, 10 U (in NM, CO, AK, MS, central NV),
100+ A, U in Pacific, 3 A in S. Atlantic
(A=aboveground; U=Underground)


'The greatest irony of our atmospheric nuclear testing program is that 
 the only victims of U.S. nuclear arms since World War II have been our own people.' 
- Forgotten Guinea Pigs Report, 1980

In 1986, the U.S. Dept. of Energy used the cover of the Chernobyl fallout cloud over the United States to release huge amounts of radiation into the air from a failed underground Nevada nuclear test. It was called Mighty Oak.

Did global fallout cause massive mutations that may explain disorders like autism?

learn more on our global fallout page

 

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