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[–] boggsman 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure my grandmother died from leukemia as a result.

[–] DriftingDeep 7 points 1 year ago

That sucks man. There’s something especially upsetting knowing how and why a loved one died, and that there was nothing that could've been done differently.

My Grandpa died of thyroid cancer from these tests. He lived in south-central Utah and remembers feeling tremors from testing on his wedding day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Study referenced in NYT article that was the basis for the article above:
Fallout from U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests in New Mexico and Nevada (1945-1962)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.11040.pdf