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Article: We're all downwinders.(the National Cancer Institute has released the results of a study claiming that virtually the entire continental United States was exposed to radiation from 1951-1962 as a result of nuclear weapons testing)(Brief Article)
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- The Nation
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- October 13, 1997
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This past summer brought the latest revelation in what is undoubtedly one of the biggest horror stories and longest cover-ups of the cold war: above-ground atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons by the United States. In August the National Cancer Institute was forced to disclose the existence of a study of radiation exposure attributable to above-ground testing of nuclear weapons carried out by the United States military within the United States at the Nevada Test Site between 1951 and 1962.
Despite repeated, unequivocal assurances and reassurances from the highest levels of government during the fifties and sixties that the testing program was safe--and that ...