The principal nuclear bomb casualties in New Mexico, that I'm aware of, were Navajo Uranium miners and their families.
-- rec -- On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan was a primary testing area for the nuclear > weapons of the Soviet Union. It is similar to the Trinity Site (now the > White Sands Missile Range) near Los Alamos and Santa Fe. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipalatinsk_Test_Site > > Here the Americans set off their first atomic bomb, at Semipalatinsk, the > Soviets set off their first nuclear bomb. They built a secret city 60 km > away from the testing grounds (the former research center Semipalatinsk-21, > now Kurchatov), similar to Los Alamos. > > Today, the people near Semipalatinsk still suffer > from the effects of radiation, the incidence of cancer and cancer mortality > has increased. > Is this a problem in New Mexico as well? > Is it a controversial topic in Santa Fe? > > -J. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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