New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez and 13 other top prosecutors from around the U.S. are throwing their support behind efforts to compensate people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing.
The Democratic officials sent a letter Wednesday to congressional leaders, saying “it’s time for the federal government to give back to those who sacrificed so much.”
The letter refers to the estimated half a million people who lived within a 150-mile (240-kilometer) radius of the Trinity Test site in southern New Mexico, where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945. It also pointed to thousands of people in Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Montana and Guam who currently are not eligible under the existing compensation program.
70 years later.
Definitely muddled by the fact that they learned most of what we know about the medical consequences of radiation exposure from Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the decade following. And then they can be like “well we didn’t know it was harmful!”- but “we didn’t poison them intentionally” is a low bar
Watch The Coming War on China documentary to learn about what America did to the inhabitants of the Bikini islands after the trinity tests.
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It was just a suggestion.
You suggested a propaganda film. I know what happened in Bikini Atoll and the subsequent federal activity and lack thereof, I don’t need to “watch” history laden with a political agenda to learn what can be read.
Fair enough.
