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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 _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
