Compensation of survivors

[BERNARD L COHEN <blc+@PITT.EDU>]

	Comment on Veterans Administration proposal:



	You are proposing that compensation be given to survivors of

workers whose cause of death might possibly have been caused by radiation

while working for their country in the cold war.

	Why, then, should you not pay compensation to soldiers killed in

Korea and Vietnam during this same time period? They were certainly killed

from working for their country, as part of the cold war with the Soviet

Union. If the workers' deaths were caused by the U.S. government, surely

that is true of the soldiers. The only difference is that the soldier

deaths were certainly caused by the government, while the worker deaths

had only a very slight possibility of being caused by the government.

  



Bernard L. Cohen

Physics Dept.

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Tel: (412)624-9245

Fax: (412)624-9163

e-mail: blc+@pitt.edu





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