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Idealist regularly researches and reports on radiation coverups - perpetrated and suppressed by governments and industry globally - that are unnecessarily injuring and killing innocent civilians.   Learn the truth about the present dangers from radioactive space debris, why visiting Las Vegas or the Nevada Test Site is a bad idea, how NPR has lied about nuclear explosions in space, the first ever nuke test in Colorado, the U.S.'s 1986 Mighty Oak coverup, global fallout from NK's nuclear tests, 1950's and present-day plutonium contamination of Utah, what's wrong and still radioactive in New Mexico and in Idaho, Pacific nuclear test fallout, mock nuclear explosions almost daily taking place at LANL, what activists don't even know to tell you about nuclear power, why a Pentagon agency is really a domestic threat, radioactive wildfires, Australia's radioactive duststorms, the real truth about Hiroshima & Nagasaki (and how WWII's victors sabotaged sensible radiation-standards), swine flu and radiation- impacted viruses, that your drywall is radioactive, nuclear waste transports are harming you, and a girl who died from a U.S./U.K. coverup at Greenham Common.  Or, for intellectual dessert, learn how our world is incurably tainted from global testing fallout.

                                                                          



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Trivia questions

1: The National Cancer Institute was ordered by Congress in 1983 to investigate the health impacts of radioactive Iodine-131 exposure from U.S. atmospheric atomic testing. When was that report first released to the public?   

(a) 1986, (b) 1991 , (c) 1993, (d) 1997  background info

2: About how many counties in the 'lower' United States were hit with Nevada testing fallout?  

(a) 20, (b) 50 (c) 1500, (d) 3000  background info

3: About how many nuclear bombs were detonated at the Nevada Test Site from 1951 to 1992?  

(a) 13, (b) 100 , (c) 1,000, (d) none, but it is reserved for any testing, if needed; background info

4: When was the plutonium lying on the ground of the Nevada Test Site from 1950s and 1960s Plutonium Dispersal Experiments cleaned up?  

(a) 1958, (b) 1992 , (c) 2005, (d) it hasn't been fully cleaned up.  background info

5: Which of the following groups isn't eligible under RECA?  

(a) uranium miners, (b) Northern Utah downwinders , (c) test site workers, (d) Southern Utah downwinders.  background info

6: What was the size of the proposed Divine Strake explosion?  

(a) 7 pounds, (b) 700 pounds, (c) 7 tons, (d) 700 tons.  background info

Trivia answers found here


More trivia: Have you heard the story about John Wayne, who quite possibly - like a few dozen of his co-actors - received a fatal dose of radioactive Nevada poison which fell the year before - it was lingering/residual fallout - on a film shoot in Southern Utah in the 1950s?  Or, the story about JFK?  In the book A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, author Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. tells of a fascinating episode in JFK's presidency:  'Jerome Wiesner, his Science Adviser, reminded him one drizzling day how rain washed radioactive debris from the clouds and brought it down to the earth.  Kennedy, looking out the window, said, "You mean that stuff is in the rain out there?"  Wiesner said, "Yes."  The President continued gazing out the window, deep sadness on his face, and did not say a word for several minutes.' (p. 455) 

Idealist's public document archives: 1. Documents 2. Documents

U.S. NUCLEAR tests: 128 A + 899 U in NV,
1 A in NM, 10 U (in NM, CO, AK, MS, central NV),
100+ A, U in Pacific, 3 A in S. Atlantic
(A=aboveground; U=Underground)


'The greatest irony of our atmospheric nuclear testing program is that 
 the only victims of U.S. nuclear arms since World War II have been our own people.' 
- Forgotten Guinea Pigs Report, 1980

In 1986, the U.S. Dept. of Energy used the cover of the Chernobyl fallout cloud over the United States to release huge amounts of radiation into the air from a failed underground Nevada nuclear test. It was called Mighty Oak.

Did global fallout cause massive mutations that may explain disorders like autism?

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