Source:
Washington's Blog
Date: 8/17/2012
Government Has Been Covering up Radiation Danger for 67 Years
The U.S. and other governments have been covering up nuclear meltdowns for
fifty years to protect the nuclear power industry.
It turns out that the U.S. tried to cover up the destructive nature of radiation produced by nuclear weapons
67 years ago. As Democracy Now
reports:
The army was well aware in 1943 of the enormous potential
for radiation dangers to civilians and military personnel as a result
of the use of radioactive weapons ….
[The New York Times] was essentially putting out the official
government narrative [regarding the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki],
which is that atomic radiation is not harmful, is not a major byproduct
of the nuclear weapons program. You know, it’s only the blast that has
essentially a very short impact. The reason that this has importance is
that for really a half century, this narrative became the government’s
response to all protests against nuclear power, the nuclear weapons
programs of the 1950s and 1960s and the Cold War. So, [The New York
Times] essentially set the table that the government was to occupy for
the next half century as they disputed any attempt to rein in, you know,
the rapid acceleration of nuclear weapons and power programs.
Nothing has changed. Governments
worldwide continue to this day to cover up
the amount – and
health effects – of radiation released by military and energy facilities.
And the same considerations which drove the cover up in 1945 are
still driving it. The archaic uranium reactor designs developed
more than 40 years ago are
good for making bombs.
