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> What state would not be willing to use nuclear weapons on its own people?

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/07/world/soviet-atom-test-used-thousands-as-guinea-pigs-archives-show.html

"During the cold war, all the nuclear powers deliberately exposed some troops 
to radiation in atmospheric tests to see how soldiers would function, even 
though many of the effects of radioactivity were already known. Records show 
that the United States carried out such experiments in Nevada and the South 
Pacific, France did so in the Algerian desert and the Soviet Union in the 
Arctic and Kazakhstan. And on all sides, it is now known, tests also sent 
radioactive fallout into inhabited areas.”

"According to the United States Defense Nuclear Agency, the United States 
conducted 235 atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons from 1944 to 1962, exposing 
some 200,000 military and civilian personnel of the Department of Defense to 
some degree of radiation.”

Glenn




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