They covered up the effects of the early bomb tests i Nevada, too. Military personnel were the guinea pigs at close range, and were lied to. I once had in my possession a booklet distributed to them that claimed there the bombs had no bad effects, a flat-out deliberate lie, with instructions to simply not look directly at the detonation…
They covered up the effects of the early bomb tests i Nevada, too. Military personnel were the guinea pigs at close range, and were lied to. I once had in my possession a booklet distributed to them that claimed there the bombs had no bad effects, a flat-out deliberate lie, with instructions to simply not look directly at the detonation. Little "towns" were built to simulate potential target areas: they simply disappeared. So the effects of the bombs on Japan were known. "Saving of American lives" was the excuse used, and they lied to Truman too. Bogus: intel already knew that Japan was preparing to make a principled surrender (meaning that the emperor and the Japanese people kept their dignity. Instead, thousands died unnecessarily.
In America, guinea pig vets died at a high rate from cancers caused by those tests, which resumed after the war. As did those living downstream. One of them was my aunt, who died in the late 1950s of a rare form of leukemia. My family was certain that it was because she was living in the "safe zone" outside the testing area.
The US had no dignity by killing hundreds of thousands of Japanese people two days in August 1945. That's not to mention the many more who died from radiation poisonings for years after. Don't forget all governments lie, and most of those lies are not tiny. The horror! The horror! The horror!
The 1956 movie The Conqueror was filmed near St. George, UT and was down wind of nuclear tests at the time of filming. According to the Wikipedia article about the film "Of the 220 film crew members, 91 (comprising 41.36% of the crew) developed cancer during their lifetime, while 46 (or 20.91%) died from it. When this was learned, many suspected that filming in Utah and surrounding locations, near nuclear test sites, was to blame" and The exterior scenes were shot near St. George, Utah, which is 137 miles (220 km) downwind of the United States government's Nevada National Security Site and received the brunt of nuclear fallout from testing active in this period."
They covered up the effects of the early bomb tests i Nevada, too. Military personnel were the guinea pigs at close range, and were lied to. I once had in my possession a booklet distributed to them that claimed there the bombs had no bad effects, a flat-out deliberate lie, with instructions to simply not look directly at the detonation. Little "towns" were built to simulate potential target areas: they simply disappeared. So the effects of the bombs on Japan were known. "Saving of American lives" was the excuse used, and they lied to Truman too. Bogus: intel already knew that Japan was preparing to make a principled surrender (meaning that the emperor and the Japanese people kept their dignity. Instead, thousands died unnecessarily.
In America, guinea pig vets died at a high rate from cancers caused by those tests, which resumed after the war. As did those living downstream. One of them was my aunt, who died in the late 1950s of a rare form of leukemia. My family was certain that it was because she was living in the "safe zone" outside the testing area.
The US had no dignity by killing hundreds of thousands of Japanese people two days in August 1945. That's not to mention the many more who died from radiation poisonings for years after. Don't forget all governments lie, and most of those lies are not tiny. The horror! The horror! The horror!
The 1956 movie The Conqueror was filmed near St. George, UT and was down wind of nuclear tests at the time of filming. According to the Wikipedia article about the film "Of the 220 film crew members, 91 (comprising 41.36% of the crew) developed cancer during their lifetime, while 46 (or 20.91%) died from it. When this was learned, many suspected that filming in Utah and surrounding locations, near nuclear test sites, was to blame" and The exterior scenes were shot near St. George, Utah, which is 137 miles (220 km) downwind of the United States government's Nevada National Security Site and received the brunt of nuclear fallout from testing active in this period."