Did China's Nuclear Tests Kill Thousands and Doom Future Generations?

Radioactive clouds hung over villagers as China detonated nuclear bombs in the air for four decades

Three decades on, Tohti, now a medical doctor, is launching an investigation into the toll still being taken—and one that the Chinese government steadfastly refuses to acknowledge. A few hundred thousand people may have died as a result of radiation from at least 40 nuclear explosions carried out between 1964 and 1996 at the Lop Nur site in Xinjiang Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 22, 2009

The effects of exposure to nuclear radiation have been concealed by most of the nuclear powers. The secrecy in China here is pealed back by the investigations that are reported.

Envision a nuke-free world. We are all down-winders.

accumulating data suggest “that there is serious genetic damage in people living in these contaminated areas,”

“The atomic bomb was an almost instantaneous exposure,” Shore explains. “We still need good data on radiation that has been delivered time and time again, over a long period—there may be different effects.”

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