The Roanoke Slant

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Roanoke Times, 3-21-11, Pg 3: Progress is being made against nuclear threat.

The news media is awash with radiation stories. It’s a mass-hysteria vehicle that sells newspapers, jacks up ratings, promotes Hollywood movies and bolsters special interest individuals and groups all of whom prosper from the notoriety. However, the media is not highlighting that this is radiation from nuclear power material and not from weapons grade materials.
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Unfortunately we were not informed about nor protected from the major radiation threats from the multinational 500 nuclear weapons air-bursts from 1945 through 1970. This radiation from weapons-grade materials were released into the air from both fission and fusion bombs. The radiation swept across the US from West to East falling out across the entire country.
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The US government had a secret funded program of paying dairy farmers to dump contaminated milk. The timing, extent and success of this program is still not publicly available and appeared to be too little too late.
(US Code, Title 7, Chap 17, Sec. 450j. Indemnity payments to dairy farmers and manufacturers of dairy products; milk removed for its residue of chemical or toxic substances; nuclear radiation or fallout contaminants; other legal recourse)
Milk was important for two reasons: cows were an accumulator of radiation falling on grasses and grains and milk is a main food source for young people.
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Today’s fallout-milk story:
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/03/18/japanese-disaster-affect-calif-milk-supply/
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Another important accumulator was tobacco. The large leaves collected fallout materials where it was adsorbed by the leaves and then processed into products that are inhaled directly into the lungs where the fallout materials were retained and accumulated in the tars in the lungs.
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Other problems were related to radioactive iodine entering the food chain and resulting primarily but not limited to thyroid illness.
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The pandemics of breast and uterine and prostate cancers in the US continue to be listed as “cause unknown” however, as the people who grew-up from 1945 to 1970 die-off hopefully these cancer rates will greatly diminish for those who followed.
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Prior Like Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/radiation-and-cancer-and-air-bursts.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/cancer-and-500-nuclear-air-bursts.html
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