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 »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
The US, former USSR, France, possibly either South Africa or Israel (1970s Indian Ocean Test which no nation claimed responsibility) India, Pakistan and North Korea have all released radio isotopes in addition to fallout. The difference is fallout can normally be seen and decontamination can take place with radio isotopes there is not normally any visable manifestation and it is readily ingested without knowledge. Underground tests are safer than above agound tests, but they are not safe, radio isotopes almost always escape even when the test is over a mile underground.