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Here's the thing, nuclear fallout just doesn't disappear. It's still there and if you were born in the northern hemisphere any time from 1960 to 1975 your genes most likely have some type of mutation from nuclear fallout. It's also being linked to Autism.
Idealist is a grassroots organization that endeavors to slow and ultimately reverse the tide of global corporate and governmental suppression and cover-up of the environmental and health effects of human-made radiation that now contaminates every place on Earth.
The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (predecessor to the Department of Energy) conducted several atomic and thermonuclear explosions in space and high-altitudes to test the effects of various forms of radiation bursts on Earth's upper atmosphere.
The atomic devices were detonated over the South Atlantic Ocean at between 200 and 540 kilometers (124 and 336 miles) above the Earth's surface and cumulatively generated a '60 mile blanket of beta particles that completely encircled the earth for days' (Under the Cloud, Miller, 1986). This great infusion into Earth's magnetic field of beta particles, comprising radioactive elements produced by the nuclear blast, created an 'artificial aurora,' or colorful streams of light in the night sky. This phenomenon was often witnessed following U.S and U.S.S.R. high-altitude nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s.
From September 22 to 24, 2009, Australia's worst dust storm in 70 years carried debris from the continent's interior into the coastal cities, including Sydney, and onwards, on Sept. 24-25, to New Zealand. The storm was about 1,000 km long and 500 km wide. A second dust storm hit Syndey early on September 25 and Brisbane by evening of September 26 - it was smaller than the first storm and measured about 200 km wide. The winds from both storms may have carried plutonium particles1 and there were speculations in the blogosphere that even other radioactive substances, like uranium from open mines and DU from military operations, were lofted from the interior. An article by news.com.au on Sept. 25 titled 'Are the dust storms radioactive? Australian scientists study Aussie dust from New Zealand' mentioned that a team of scientists had assembled to determine if uranium dust from South Australia's massive Olympic Dam uranium mine might have ended up in the red dust that coated the Australian east coast and New Zealand.
Linus Pauling, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to halt nuclear testing, calculated that the radioactive fallout from nuclear testing up to 1962 will cause 80,000 to 18,000,000 genetic defects in children and embryonic, neonatala and childhood deaths. He calculated that for every 10 megatons, 3,500 to 780,000 children will be born with gross physical or mental defects or enough damage to result in early death. According to this formula, from all atmospheric testing through the present between 154,000 to 34,320,000 children may be suffering early death or gross mental or physical defects. (The effects of long-lived fallout, like Carbon-14 and Strontium-90, which will be in our air, water and food supplies and cause genetic defects and physical harm and death for generations, were included in Sakharov and Pauling's calculations.)
Linus Pauling, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to halt nuclear testing, calculated that the radioactive fallout from nuclear testing up to 1962 will cause 80,000 to 18,000,000 genetic defects in children and embryonic, neonatala and childhood deaths. He calculated that for every 10 megatons, 3,500 to 780,000 children will be born with gross physical or mental defects or enough damage to result in early death. According to this formula, from all atmospheric testing through the present between 154,000 to 34,320,000 children may be suffering early death or gross mental or physical defects. (The effects of long-lived fallout, like Carbon-14 and Strontium-90, which will be in our air, water and food supplies and cause genetic defects and physical harm and death for generations, were included in Sakharov and Pauling's calculations.)