Hazards of Radiation
All the world knows about Saddam Hussein using chemical weapons on his own people. How is it that so few Americans realize that more than 150,000 American citizens were exposed to harmful, even fatal doses of nuclear radiation?
Unsuspecting patriotic Americans were told there is no danger to the downwind radiation produced by above-ground nuclear explosions. Why is it the people who knowingly perpetrated this outrage are not being prosecuted as the murderers they are? Is it because the perpetrators are not “despotic tyrants” but the elected and appointed officials of the U.S. government?
The victims of this atrocity have not only been ignored by a society so easily outraged by Saddam Hussein, they must now accept inadequate compensation that precludes further legal action.
The only way to restore voter participation in American politics is for the government to come clean in this and a thousand other outrages. And then stop the immoral conduct and cover ups that outline American history.
GREGORY W. SPEARING
Wilmington
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