Nevada Test Site Downwinders

Rick Andrews interviews Troy Wade, president of the Atomic Testing Museum, who worked at the Nevada Test Site in 1958.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• atomic
• testing
• museums
• las
• vegas
• nevada
• test
• site

[roseforvendetta]

if my mom was alive she tell you about the glow in the dark food

[roseforvendetta]

my dad was there in the military., my brother died of cancer my sister has cancer now my other brother has cancer, and im waiting on my test resoults now.

[chevybuilder350]

It is terrible about all the people affected from nuclear testing. I have a relative that worked at the test site in the 50's and 60's. He has since died from cancer directly linked to his work at the test site. Despite that, right up to his death he had a great sense of pride and patrotism from being involved with nuclear testing. The true nature of radiation (and it's dangers) was still being discovered and largely unknown at that time.

[chevybuilder350]

@tom69pl Oh Shut Up!!!

[cochranexyz]

Yes indeed. Oh, this book will piss you off!

[tom69pl]

wow thanks that sound interesting. So us government knew that people would suffer from these tests but still proceeded to carry them out? I guess it is not suprising since US government and C.I.A made the attacks on 11 of September to make a reason for going to war with Iraq...

[cochranexyz]

spent several years interviewing and photographing these nuclear-test victims and gathering evidence of official indifference, callousness and outright cover-ups. The sheer density of suffering depicted here is awesome; in certain Utah towns, for instance, Gallagher found cases of cancer in every house. The bitter, stoic testimony of the victims (many of whom have since died), accompanied by Gallagher's photographic portraits of them, is deeply disturbing and exposes a major national scandal.

[cochranexyz]

From Publishers Weekly (via amazon): From 1951 to 1963, the U.S. government conducted atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in Nevada without regard to the effect of radioactive fallout on humans, livestock and the environment. In the late 1950s, birth defects and deaths from cancer began to soar among civilian and military test-site workers and their newborn children, and among "downwinders" living in Nevada, Utah and other western states. Gallagher, a professional photographer,

[tom69pl]

what is it about?

[cochranexyz]

If you want to read a very disturbing (and very good) book, read "American Ground Zero" by Carole Gallagher. I think it's out of print, but it's worth getting.