The research shows that the first atomic bomb explosion’s effects had been underestimated, and could help more “downwinders” press for federal compensation.
  • boggsmanEnglish
    121·
    2 years ago

    Pretty sure my grandmother died from leukemia as a result.

    • DriftingDeepEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      That sucks man. There’s something especially upsetting knowing how and why a loved one died, and that there was nothing that could’ve been done differently.

      My Grandpa died of thyroid cancer from these tests. He lived in south-central Utah and remembers feeling tremors from testing on his wedding day.