But I set out to learn, as the data became unclassified, about just what I had seen. Here is what I found out. Operation Plumbbob was a series of twenty nine tests nearly all above ground. They had begun on May 28, 1957 with “Boltzmann” and ended on October 5 that year with “Morgan.” The series, which was the most extensive ever done at Mercury, put 58.3 million curies of radio-iodine into the atmosphere. One-thousandth of a curie is what would be used in a liver scan. The radioactivity went all over the United States, with clusters in places like Maine. It is estimated that these tests caused some 38,000 thyroid cancers leading to about 2,000 deaths. The health burden of these tests put enough pressure—despite the protests of people like Edward Teller—to bring a halt to them. The same information can be gathered from an underground test witnessed only by mechanical devices.
From: http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/467905029/a-mushroom-cloud-recollected
Much has been made over the past year and a bit over any attempt to level the playing field in the States between the haves and the have-nots. Strangely, a number of the have-nots have spent a large amount of time working against their own interests. This should come as no surprise from a people who would kill thousands of their own people in the name of “defense” . That said, it seems that when a country is actively irradiating it’s people and leaving ne’er expiring death spores across itself it would at least take time out to say, hey let’s make sure that everyone can afford decent medical care.
When you see an actual medicare user rally against “government health care” you understand how insane the Generation that did this to itself really is.
The Nuclear Option
Published by NiteMayr on March 24, 2010From: http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/467905029/a-mushroom-cloud-recollected
Much has been made over the past year and a bit over any attempt to level the playing field in the States between the haves and the have-nots. Strangely, a number of the have-nots have spent a large amount of time working against their own interests. This should come as no surprise from a people who would kill thousands of their own people in the name of “defense” . That said, it seems that when a country is actively irradiating it’s people and leaving ne’er expiring death spores across itself it would at least take time out to say, hey let’s make sure that everyone can afford decent medical care.
When you see an actual medicare user rally against “government health care” you understand how insane the Generation that did this to itself really is.