I really hate to bring this up....but downwinders beware

I've been wanting to bring this subject up for awhile but every time I think about it I realize that I shouldn't depress you with certain facts...so I drop the idea.

This article includes me and my literary friend.....Wikipedia!

I've decided that you need to be reminded that our government has made decisions in the past that make no sense what's so ever!  So when you hear about a contemporary decision regarding our safety and welfare please keep in mind that that decision might not be the right decision.

The real problem is that decisions in the past have a very current and ongoing result.

A RESULT THAT WILL NOT BE CONFIRMED BY OUR GOVERNMENT but we know is happening. The result has to do with radiation poisoning.

I apologize and suggest that young children don't learn about this until they turn 18.

The Nevada National Security Site^[1] (N2S2), previously the Nevada Test Site (NTS), is a United States Department of Energy reservation located in southeastern Nye County, Nevada, about 65 mi (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas.

Between 1951 and 1992, there were a total of 928 announced nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site. Of those, 828 were underground.[3] (Sixty-two of the underground tests included multiple, simultaneous nuclear detonations, adding 93 detonations and bringing the total number of NTS nuclear detonations to 1,021, of which 921 were underground.)[4] The site is covered with subsidence craters from the testing. The Nevada Test Site was the primary testing location of American nuclear devices; 126 tests were conducted elsewhere (many at the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands).

THAT LEAVES 100 ABOVE GROUND TESTS!

On 17 July 1962, the test shot "Little Feller I" of Operation Sunbeam became the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site. Underground testing of weapons continued until 23 September 1992, and although the United States did not ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the articles of the treaty are nevertheless honored and further tests have not occurred. Subcritical testing, tests not involving the full creation of a critical mass, continue.

BETWEEN 1951 AND JULY 17 1962 THERE WERE 100 ABOVE GROUND NUCLEAR TEST 65 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAS VEGAS

65 MILES!

Imagine 65 miles from where you live...... that a nuclear bomb has just exploded!

65 MILES!

November 1951 nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. Test is shot "Dog" from Operation Buster, with a yield of 21 kilotonnes of TNT (88 TJ). It was the first U.S. nuclear field exercise conducted on land; troops shown are 6 mi (9.7 km) from the blast.

Our government had already destroyed two Japanese cities and they assured the troops shown above that 6.1 miles was a safe distance.

And then we remember 900+ underground tests.

Each of the below ground explosions—some as deep as 5,000 feet—vaporized a large chamber, leaving a cavity filled with radioactive rubble. About a third of the tests were conducted directly in aquifers, and others were hundreds or thousands of feet below the water table.[6]



When testing ended in 1992, the Energy Department estimated that more than 300 million curies of radiation remained, making the site one of the most radioactively contaminated places in the United States. In the worst affected zones, radioactivity in the tainted water reaches millions of picocuries per liter. (The federal standard for drinking water is 20 picocuries per liter.) Although radiation levels in the water have declined over time, the longer-lived isotopes will continue to pose risks for tens of thousands of years.[6]

When testing ended in 1992, the Energy Department estimated that more than 300 million curies of radiation remained, making the site one of the most radioactively contaminated places in the United States. In the worst affected zones, radioactivity in the tainted water reaches millions of picocuries per liter. (The federal standard for drinking water is 20 picocuries per liter.) Although radiation levels in the water have declined over time, the longer-lived isotopes will continue to pose risks for tens of thousands of years.[6]

I REPEATED THE LAST PARAGRAPH TWICE ON PURPOSE.

A 1979 study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that:

A significant excess of leukemia deaths occurred in children up to 14 years of age living in Utah between 1959 and 1967. This excess was concentrated in the cohort of children born between 1951 and 1958, and was most pronounced in those residing in counties receiving high fallout.[12]


This map is the RAD map.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_fallout_exposure.png

In a report by the National Cancer Institute, released in 1997, it was determined that ninety atmospheric tests at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) deposited high levels of radioactive iodine-131 (5.5 exabecquerels) across a large portion of the contiguous United States, especially in the years 1952, 1953, 1955, and 1957—doses large enough, they determined, to produce 10,000 to 75,000 cases of thyroid cancer. The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990 allowed for people living downwind of NTS for at least two years in particular Nevada, Arizona or Utah counties, between 21 January 1951 and 31 October 1958, or 30 June and 31 July 1962, and suffering from certain cancers or other serious illnesses deemed to have been caused by fallout exposure to receive compensation of $50,000. By January 2006, over 10,500 claims had been approved, and around 3,000 denied, for a total amount of over $525 million in compensation dispensed to "downwinders".[14] Additionally, the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 provides compensation and medical benefits for nuclear weapons workers who may have developed certain work-related illnesses.[15]

DOWNWIND!.......I LIVED IN LOS ANGELES AND IT'S NOT DOWNWIND BUT WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS IS THAT THEY CREATE THEIR OWN WIND AND IT GOES EVERYWHERE.....and all I know is that my thyroid is gone and nobody I know has ever bothered to mention that compensation might be involved.

AND THIS MIGHT BE THE CRAZIEST PART OF THE STORY!


NTS today

The test site offers monthly public tours, often fully booked months in advance. Visitors are not allowed to bring in cameras, binoculars, cell phones, or pick up rocks for souvenirs.[9]


WTF!

WHY IN HELL WOULD ANYBODY WANT TO VISIT THE NTS???????????????????
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Our governement is still doing things that make no sense. 

Certain parks are closing because we can't afford to have
a forest ranger strolling the grounds, but we have a a nuclear test site that allows visitors.

HUH?

I need to go to sleep now....

I'll try to offset this story in a few days.

Michael Timothy McAlevey