FUCK THE NUCLEAR POWERS
Feb. 28th, 2002 01:47 pmfuck the global nuclear powers all to hell.
yeah, you heard me. fuck america and fuck russia and fuck the uk and fuck china and fuck india and fuck pakistan and fuck n. korea and fuck every other country whose leaders somehow still have the god damned GALL to think that nuclear weaponry is a good idea. i have never been so pissed off in all my life. i knew it. i knew it. god damn, i'm shaking like a leaf. a really, really very angry leaf.
read on...
from Yahoo - Reuters >> science news:
Nuke Test Fallout Caused 15,000 U.S. Deaths
Thu Feb 28, 8:53 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 15,000 cancer deaths in the United States were probably caused by radioactive fallout from Cold War nuclear weapons tests worldwide, according to portions of a government study made public on Thursday by USA Today.
The Health and Human Services Department study, which has not been published yet, also suggested 20,000 nonfatal cancers among U.S. residents born after 1951 could be linked to fallout from aboveground weapons tests, the paper said.
USA Today said the study showed far more fallout than previously known reached the United States from nuclear tests done in the former Soviet Union and on several Pacific Islands by the United States and Britain.
Fallout from U.S. tests in Nevada also spread substantial amounts of radioactivity across a broad band of the country, the paper said.
When fallout from all domestic and foreign tests was combined, no U.S. resident born after 1951 escaped exposure, according to the study.
The estimates on radiation dispersal were based on complex computer analyzes of weather patterns, population trends and other data that can gauge public exposure to fallout from aboveground nuclear tests, the paper said.
USA Today said data in the study showed global fallout blanketed much of the United States with heavy pockets in Iowa, Tennessee, California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
Fallout from Nevada tests settled more in states such as Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri.
The Department of Health and Human Services could not immediately be reached for comment.