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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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Jun. 23, 2009

Excellent read about an issue I was not aware of. The strength of this piece is in the contextual information about nuclear testing, not just in China but in other parts of the world. Also gets high points for fairness, in pointing out that these tests were carried out by many countries around the world.

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