Nuclear Weapon Testing - How bad are the Consequences today? | Downwind | ENDEVR Documentary

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  @ENDEVRDocs · 2 years ago · pinned

  Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada. The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living... downwind.

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  @Tom-mu7zy · 1 year ago

  Our friend lost his wife a dozen years ago. She grew up in southwest Utah. They used to sit on their back porches and watch the mushroom clouds in the distance. She was the last survivor of her high school class. They all died of cancer, every one of them. They called themselves the Down Winders.

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  @allegrosotto2126 · 2 years ago

  In Australia testing was done at Woomera, and beyond. North winds took the fallout to Adelaide and there the hospital was full of children suffering from cancers. My brother was one of them.

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  @raymondpetersen6155 · 2 years ago

  I'm 67 years old and remember when they were still testing. But I'm from Michigan. Had no idea how many bombs!! How many of those damn bombs do ya have to explode before you realize the damage they do!! DAMN!! 😳😤

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  @anthonynaldrett5201 · 2 years ago

  The Government will never be held accountable for what they have done. All we ever do is make statements on what they do and the damages they have caused, but never act to stop them in their processes. You can continue to talk and explain what lifelong effects this has but nothing will get done. 😢😢

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  @bill8985 · 2 years ago

  Don't forget that Martin Sheen also (essentially narrated) a movie called "Nightbreaker (1989)" with his son Emilio and other greats like Lea Thompson.   Very disturbing images from that movie I'll never ever be able to forget.  Roughly the same subject.   Sheen is a good man.

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  @RavingKats · 2 years ago

  That poor lady who lost her sister who was 9 months pregnant and her young daughter a month apart 💔 humans are resilient but damn, no one should have to go through this over the paranoias and fear mongering of a military industrial complex. Some things about America are just so ugly.

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  @paulmccallum1545 · 2 years ago

  Don&apos;t forget Maralinga in South Australia. There was radiation from those tests detected as far away as Townsville in North Queensland. <br>They&apos;ve irradiated the whole planet, which is why the cancer rates by percentage, have increased immensely in the last 60 years. Not to forget the more recent nuclear accidents such as Chernobyl, Fukushima and a number of others within the last 40 years.<br>Unfortunately, no country has been left unscathed.

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  @Noneya5241 · 1 year ago

  I’ve been saying for years that nuclear weapons being tested has been what’s wrong with our food water bodies and climate for decades

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  @Hero4Hire4 · 2 years ago

  I was around in “Duck and Cover” school days. Now I’m wondering if my school was the only one that explained why we did the drills? It was NOT about the desks making us impervious to an atomic bomb blast! If our classrooms were outside of the blast zone, there was still the real possibility of over pressure blast waves blowing out all of the windows. By ducking underneath our desks we stood a better chance of avoiding the flying shards of glass. It also served to prevent kids from running to the windows to look out at the fireball and risk burning out our optic nerves from watching the flash!

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  @khylerin70 · 2 years ago

  The British did the same thing to us in Australia during the 1950s at Maralinga South Australia. Our own governments, complicit in killing us with more determined certainty than any alleged foreign foe.

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  @fredharvey2720 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I took a public tour of the Nevada Test Site. It was quite the experience. They don&apos;t tell you what you get exposed to other than it&apos;s not higher than background (I know for a fact that&apos;s not true) and that you don&apos;t get to bring in a geiger counter or dosimeter. The truth is that where you go isn&apos;t dangerous because the radiation levels while elevated aren&apos;t that high and you&apos;re not there but a few minutes. I walked on Yucca Flat and Frenchman Flat and that was a trip.

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