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Deseret News archives: Atomic bomb tests rattled Americans in the West
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoAgain and again? On May 15, 1955, the U.S. military finished a series of atomic tests in southern...
The Scandalous Science Behind Nuclear Regulation
Reason.com via AOL· 19 hours agoMuller's influence peaked during the Cold War, as fears of radioactive fallout from above-ground nuclear weapons testing dominated public discourse. He...
Downwinders in D.C. lobbying House to pass compensation for radiation exposure
Santa Fe New Mexican· 1 day agoMore than 30 years after the Cold War ended, the legacy of nuclear testing and the uranium mined to...
Iran could go nuclear if threatened, top officials warn as Middle East tensions rise
Semafor via Yahoo News· 6 days agoOne prominent moderate Iranian activist said that Israel’s attack on the Iranian Embassy in Syria...
Modern-day lessons from Hiroshima
Mother Jones· 5 days agoThe newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. For four...
Advocates want to expand compensation for downwinders, but Utahns in Congress worry about price tag
Idaho Capital Sun via Yahoo News· 2 days agoCongress is considering two competing bills that would continue compensating people who were...
The deranged Planet of the Apes sequels Charlton Heston tried to kill
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 days agoCharlton Heston did not want to return to the Planet of the Apes. The original film, released in...
Downwinder groups blast Utah congressional delegation for opposing radiation compensation expansion
The Salt Lake Tribune· 5 days ago“Downwinders” is the term applied to the roughly 60,000 people, who were exposed to harmful...
Narrower radiation compensation bill rankles advocates
The Hill via Yahoo News· 7 days agoAdvocates of a bipartisan bill to extend and expand compensation for Americans exposed to nuclear...
'Fallout' is fun, but the reality of a post-nuclear apocalypse is nightmare fuel
Los Angeles Times· 7 days agoLater, we meet a 200-year-old noseless cowboy ghoul (Walton Goggins), once known as movie star...