Why can't we learn?

[helderheid]

Why can't we learn?
Public Forum Letter
Article Last Updated: 02/05/2007 07:22:37 PM MST



In the 1950s, the U.S. government detonated nuclear explosions at the Nevada Test Site that were "safe" for residents of Utah and Nevada. It turns out that these "safe" explosions caused cancer and even death to many downwind of the blasts.

Now a new 700-ton explosion called Divine Strake will be tested in the same area. This explosion is also said to be safe, but this is questionable to many experts. It is funny how history repeats itself.



This new round of testing could pose a major health risk to the many thousands of residents in the general area of the blast. The soil at the Nevada Test Site, where Divine Strake is set to take place, is laden with millions of curies of strontium, cesium, and plutonium radiation left over from the detonation of more than 900 nuclear bombs in the 1950s. I don't want these radioactive elements blown 10,000 feet into the atmosphere above my house, do you?

Is this test really worth the risk? And are we creating a new generation of downwinders with serious health problems? Why haven't we learned from our mistakes?

Glen Forster
Salt Lake City

http://tetonrainbows.com/_content/images/BlueThunder%20Helping%20Stop%20Divine%20Strake%20Detonation%20May%2027th,%202006.jpg

http://sltrib.com/opinion/ci_5163034

*pictures added by me

[helderheid]

1. kick

[EstimatedProphet]

2. I'm beginning to think most Americans don't even know nukes are dangerous

It's scary, isn't it?

[DaveJ]

3. We have enough nukes already

WFT do they need more for if they know they can't be used anyway....

Oh wait, these days nobody is considered useful unless they are in the business of making new ways to kill, at least according to *'s proposed budget.

[helderheid]

4. They want nuke bunker busters to bomb Iran

:mad: