Re: Newsarticle: Cold War's Human Costs Linger

["Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>]

>"Another 10 years, and it's not going to matter. We're all going to be

>dead," said Charles McKay, the Maryland commander for the National

>Association of Atomic Veterans and, like Tom Morrison, a Navy diver during

>Operation Crossroads. According to the association's survey of 1,572 men

>present for the 1946 Bikini Atoll detonations, 59 percent have died of

>cancer, at an average age of 57."

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If true, the cancer incidence in this group would be significantly high.

Does anyone know whether these figures have been scientifically

verified?











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