Re: Downwind health issues from Nevada Test Site

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

I have forgoitten the date of the Atmospheris Test Ban Treaty, but it was before 1965.  There were occasional excursions from underground tests, but what "downwinders" would have been complaining about would have been atmospheric tests for about a decade, not three.  Moreover anyone putativbely suffering from fallout from a 1960 test would have had a lot of other environmental exposure in 43 years.  Genetic effects?  BEIR V claims they would be  essentially impossible to identify.  A 1978 paper in SCIENCE failed to identify genetic effects in two post-bomb generations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki residents.  The atmospheric tests resulted in earth-circling fallout.  



Parts of Utah are indeed downwind from Tooele, but atmospheric tests at Tooele were not tests of nuclear devices.  It's hard to imagine "downwind" effects in Utah from the occasional excursions of underground tests at the Nevada Test Site.



Ruth

Ruth Weiner

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