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Downwinders
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Divine Strake Meeting
By sstamper @ 7:49 PM :: 1065 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Downwinders, Nuclear Weapons
Boise, Idaho -- Idaho's downwinders turned out in force Sunday afternoon to share their concerns with the government agencies responsible for Divine Strake. The explosive experiment slated for the Nevada desert has many worried they are once again in the path of radioactive fallout.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Scientists fail to sway residents
By sstamper @ 7:25 PM :: 1060 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Downwinders, Nuclear Weapons
With posters, maps and charts on radiation exposure, government scientists tried to assure about 35 residents Tuesday that the Divine Strake non-nuclear blast planned for the Nevada Test Site will not harm their health or the environment.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
NYTimes on Opposition Divine Strake Enivronmental
By sstamper @ 6:35 PM :: 1041 Views :: 2 Comments :: :: Downwinders, Nuclear Weapons
Las Vegas, Jan. 10 -- A twice-postponed nonnuclear bomb test in the middle of the Nevada desert may face additional legal challenges over its potential to propel dangerous radioactive particles from the soil into the air over four states.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Utah leaders ask for public meetings to explain 'Divine Strake'
By sstamper @ 10:34 PM :: 860 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Downwinders
Daily Herald, The Associated Press, December 5, 2006...WASHINGTON -- Utah officials are pressing the federal government to make good on a promise to hold meetings in Utah before settling plans for a non-nuclear explosion to test bunker-buster bombs at the Nevada Test Site. Utah Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson and Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch said the Defense Threat Reduction Agency promised to explain the explosion, dubbed "Divine Strake," during meetings in northern and southern Utah around mid-December.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Thyroditis linked to fallout
By sstamper @ 6:59 PM :: 781 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Downwinders
HURRICANE - A study conducted by several agencies and researchers, including University of Utah professor Joseph L. Lyon, indicates a much stronger association than previously believed between fallout from testing at the Nevada Test Site during the 1950s and thyroid conditions.
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Thursday, June 22, 2006
'Downwinders’ deserve their due
By sstamper @ 9:57 AM :: 1266 Views :: 3 Comments :: :: Downwinders
The news out of Washington is a baffling set of contradictions. The Federal Emergency Management Agency freely and hurriedly ladled out $1.4 billion in aid to hundreds of ineligible Katrina hurricane claimants—call it fraud—and just as quickly peeled off $60,000 in compensation to families of 24 Iraqis shot and killed in Haditha by U.S. Marines who're being investigated for murder.
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Friday, June 16, 2006
Downwinders rail at government
By sstamper @ 4:30 PM :: 882 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Downwinders
EMMETT — Downwinders told their stories with tears and breaking voices at a rally in Emmett on Sunday, but the prevailing emotion was anger at the government.
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Friday, May 26, 2006
Mushroom cloud blast in Nevada delayed indefinitely
By sstamper @ 9:11 PM :: 955 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Downwinders
The federal government has indefinitely postponed a planned explosion that was expected to generate a mushroom cloud over the Nevada desert.
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Monday, May 22, 2006
Up in arms: Test will aggravate nuclear threat
By sstamper @ 10:14 PM :: 771 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Downwinders
It's called the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. So why is it laboring so hard to increase the threat of nuclear aggression?
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Monday, May 22, 2006
Bomb tests? Not again in our back yard
By sstamper @ 10:03 PM :: 749 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Downwinders
You may have a tough time figuring us out here in Utah. Generally speaking, we are a patriotic bunch.
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