-----A father who had witnessed the deadly clouds while working in southern Utah told the author that when his son was born "his face was a massive hole and they had to put all these pieces of his face back together." "I could see down his throat, everything was just turned inside out, his face was curled out and it was horrible," he continued. "I wanted to die. I wanted him to die." The boy survived, but his father became suicidally depressed. -----
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From 1951 to 1962, the Atomic Energy Commission detonated nuclear bombs in the Nevada desert. Radioactive fallout from the open-air blasts dusted the skies and caused great damage to Mormon farm communities in Utah and Arizona. Medical records show that thousands of people were subjected to cancer-causing radiation.............the Americans whose misfortune it was to live downwind of the nuclear detonations - those citizens described in a top-secret Atomic Energy Commission memo as "a low-use segment of the population" - and of civilian workers and military personnel exposed to radiation at the Nevada Test Site.
Tests conducted in secret by the Public Health Service and the Atomic Energy Commission showed that the effects of the blasts reached far beyond ground zero in Nevada. Milk was poisoned in New England, wheat in South Dakota, soil in Virginia and fish in the Great Lakes, and sheep, horses and cattle were burned by fallout far beyond the Government's atomic reservation.
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American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War by Carole Gallagher (1993) is a gripping and compelling photo-documentary that describes the largely untold story of the suffering and death of hardworking Americans at the hands of our own Government.
