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Carole Gallagher

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Gallagher, Carole
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USA
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New York, New York, USA

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American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War por Carole Gallagher
Disturbing and revealing oral history of America's atomic testing program and the health impacts caused by radiation. Hundreds of atomic bombs were set off in the deserts of southern Nevada in the 1950s and 60s. The Government waited until the wind was blowing eastward because people in Utah "didn't give a shit about radiation", as they were Mormons who were a "low use population" that were taught never to protest or raise any concern and put God and Country as equals (the Mormons believe the US Govt is divinely inspired). Each bomb released more rads than the Chernobyl accident. Radiation has spread to every state in the country.

The effects have been devastating. Carole spent about 10 years in the 1980's traveling through Nevada and Utah interviewing people - cancer rates went through the roof and remain high to this day. Strange pregnancies and birth defects became the order of the day. The US government has done everything possible to cover it up going so far as to suggest radiation is good for you. The epidemic of cancer in the USA could be explained largely as a result of these tests which released enough rads to kill the world many times over.

As a result of reading this book, and the similar oral history "Voices from Chernobyl", I have purchased a new high quality Geiger counter. It is difficult reading to realize the scale of the horror but the US Govt has perpetrated a holocaust-scale crime on its own citizens and no one really knows about it. The evidence can be "soft" - how do you know what causes cancer? - but like global warming, or lung cancer caused by smoking - you don't need a scientist to tell you what your intuition and gut know to be true - the US has unloaded literally 1000s of Hiroshima's on US soil.… (mais)
 
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American ground zero : the secret nuclear war por Carole Gallagher
About the author: quoting from www.atomicphotographers.com, "Carole Gallagher, Conifer, Colorado, first began her odyssey on the nuclear trail on March 28, 1979, the day of the Three Mile Island accident. Noting beads of sweat on the brow of Walter Cronkite as he reported on it, she packed her car, ready to travel far from the potential plume that could soon have enveloped her home town, New York City." About the book, quoting from the book's back cover, the reviewer for 'The New York Times,' said of this work, "As you look at Carole Gallagher's powerful pictures and read her angry words, you may be reminded of James Agee's 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'. . .Ms. Gallagher's book deserves to be read as a crusading story of the consequences of the nuclear-arms industry's lingering contamination and deception: as an American Chernobyl." This book includes maps, lengthy quotes from survivors and victims, and commanding photographs.… (mais)
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