Posted on Sep 14, 2015
Soldiers at a Nuclear Bomb test site undergoing radiation testing and training.
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http://youtu.be/ZWSMoE3A5DI
I did some research on this when I was going to school to become an X-ray tech. This is some crazy stuff!!! Check out the color film (video) and the pic is from the same test!
I did some research on this when I was going to school to become an X-ray tech. This is some crazy stuff!!! Check out the color film (video) and the pic is from the same test!
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Capt Seid Waddell
SGT Mark Stevens, perhaps crazy from what we know now - but they didn't know about the long term effects of radiation then.
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SGT Mark Stevens
This is true. It's no different then the early scientists working with X-rays and the radiation from it. We actually had consumer X-ray units in shoe stores so you could see how well your feet fit your shoes!
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Capt Seid Waddell
SGT Mark Stevens, I remember those! It was Buster Brown shoe stores. There was very little shielding and kids used to like to play on them.
http://io9.com/5843183/when-x-rays-were-given-in-shoe-stores
http://io9.com/5843183/when-x-rays-were-given-in-shoe-stores
When X-rays were given in shoe stores
History contains many examples of medical functions performed by frighteningly unqualified people. Barbers once were also dentists. Whoever was the oldest lady in the village was also a midwife. And x-rays were shot through children's feet - by shoe store attendants.
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They say that this is the only color photo of the TrinityTest. Taken by a civilian with a little portable camera…
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SGT Mary G.
CPO (Join to see) National Park Service Trinity Test Downwinders
Manhattan Project National Historical Park provides information.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/trinity-test-downwinders.htm
Plug in NM Downwinders or Tularosa Downwinders to search and a lot of information comes up.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park provides information.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/trinity-test-downwinders.htm
Plug in NM Downwinders or Tularosa Downwinders to search and a lot of information comes up.
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SGT Mary G.
Also an article from almost a year ago in Missoula Current about legislation.
https://missoulacurrent.com/new-mexico-downwinders/
"Recently, Biden signed a bill that extended the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act for two years, but the act does not cover Downwinders like Cordova or members of her family. The extension enables Congress to tweak the bill to cover Downwinders and also uranium mineworkers in New Mexico, Leger Fernandez said Wednesday, but that hasn’t happened yet."
https://missoulacurrent.com/new-mexico-downwinders/
"Recently, Biden signed a bill that extended the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act for two years, but the act does not cover Downwinders like Cordova or members of her family. The extension enables Congress to tweak the bill to cover Downwinders and also uranium mineworkers in New Mexico, Leger Fernandez said Wednesday, but that hasn’t happened yet."
US executive branch acknowledges New Mexico 'Downwinders' for the first time
A top official with President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday acknowledged the federal government’s role in sending cancer-causing dust into the lungs of thousands of New Mexico residents when it detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in 1945.
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