What Happened to the Nuclear Test Sites?

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  @johnboy14 · 7 years ago

  Imagine making your own people clean up radioactive waste without proper protection and then denying them compensation. Sickening.

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  @ronhawkins5636 · 8 years ago (edited)

  I worked on Amchitka Island, Alaska in the late 1980s. Three nuclear bombs were exploded by the United States on Amchitka in the 1960s and 70s. Although it was supposedly safe, I have had Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma twice, eventually losing my job, my house, and my voice. Despite working as a contractor for DoD building a radar site on the Island, I was denied ANY compensation what-so-ever.  I spent the better part of 5 years contacting U.S. government agencies, congressmen, senators, attorneys, you name it and was still denied because; (1) I was merely a contractor, NOT a federal government employee, and (2) the radiation and other toxic materials were deemed to have been reduced to safe levels. Why then, I still ask, was a remediation team sent to the Island in 2001 with radiation suits, dosimeters, and paid hazardous duty pay if it was safe in 1988?  Guess I'll just die a slow, painful death for helping defend my country.

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  @ItsTheMunz · 6 years ago

  “I think the bombs are working you can stop now.”<br>Said no government ever.

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  @malcolmmarzo2461 · 5 years ago

  One of the reasons that nuclear weapons are talked about casually is that few people have seen a nuclear explosion in person. I have. In the 1950&apos;s I would go out to the Nevada Test Site with my father to see atomic tests from 30 miles away. &nbsp;Even as a nine year old it was unforgettable to be in the pre-dawn blackness and see the sky light up like noon. &nbsp;Recently people have told me that they could see the horizon light up from Reno, a straight distance of 340 miles from Las Vegas. These Hiroshima-sized bombs were relatively small, being the &quot;primers&quot; for the H-bombs being tested in the Pacific.

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• WE

  @went2fast · 6 years ago

  How this passed for normal for so many years amazes me... countless of areas ruined completely, wildlife, plans and water, and people contaminated by fallout throughout the whole world

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  @stumpypetros2685 · 6 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMo7jUs0GMs&amp;t=482">8:02</a> Same deal with the Aboriginals at Maralinga.. &nbsp;&quot;Accidently&quot; classed as uninhabited by the testing group, the area was still used by the Aboriginals and they were probably a live test just like the Degelen peoples.

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• PA

  @patrickbang3037 · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMo7jUs0GMs&amp;t=195">3:15</a> lmao imagine coming to las vegas having absolute ZERO knowledge of this and then hear/watch/feel a fucking nuclear blast and see NO BODY is overreacting or going apeshit must be unreal

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• TY

  @TylerWest1776 · 5 years ago (edited)

  I bought 21 grams of trinitite from Atomic Rock Shop a few months back. Three tubes of 7 grams in each one. The glassy trinitite rocks are really cool to look at especially in the sunlight. The amount of energy released from nuclear explosions is scary.

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  @tulsissurfboard6094 · 6 years ago

  I&apos;ve studied this subject for 20 years. &nbsp;This is a very, very good introduction to the subject. &nbsp;The details are spot on. &nbsp;Quality work.

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  @IronWarrior4Ever · 7 years ago

  Over 800 tests, because they didn&apos;t get enough tests to test if tests are good tests for testing.

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  @theguy81642 · 7 years ago

  My grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project he was a theoretical physicist, and was a dear friend of Robert Oppenheimer. I have photos of him at the Trinity testing site as they were constructing the Trinity device.

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• VA

  @ValGuard4801 · 5 years ago

  A terrifying showing of just how little human lives truly mean to government bodies.

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