Downwinder Day – 2011 USA – from Andrew Kishner, Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog, 27 Jan 2011, Sixty years ago today, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission conducted itsfirst ‘experimental nuclear detonation’ at the Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range. The date was January 27, 1951. The time was 5:45 am. The bomb test was dubbed ‘Able.’
No one but those with military clearance knew about the test. No one
but those with military clearance knew about the radioactive clouds
that floated above the continental United States. No one was warned
about the dangers of nuclear radiation that would permeate the air and
fall on crops, homes and cisterns.

Able was the first air-dropped nuclear bomb on U.S. soil and, as with
airbursts like those that occurred over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the
greatest ‘fallout’ occurred where there was the greatest
precipitation. Nearly 36 hours after detonation, ‘nuclear clouds’
encountered a snowstorm in Rochester, New York, and began increasing
radiation levels. Kodak’s Geiger Counters recorded readings 25 times
background radiation levels. Determined to get to the bottom of what
was causing the radiation spike, which would have very real threats to
the company’s film supplies, Kodak officials filed a complaint with a
Washington lobby group that cabled the AEC with the following message:

“Tests snowfall Rochester Monday by Eastman Kodak Company give 10,000
counts per minute, whereas equal volume snow falling previous Friday
gave only 400 STOP. Situation serious STOP. Will report any further
results obtained STOP. What are you doing? STOP”

The following day, the AEC released a statement to the Associated
Press saying that it was “investigating reports that snow that fell in
Rochester was measurably radioactive…” Nothing was said about
conducting an atom bomb test.

Sometime later, Kodak was the first to learn the truth – an AEC
Commissioner told a general manager at Kodak that a nuclear test had
taken place in Nevada two days before their elevated readings took
place. Kodak, naturally, feared that the atom bomb test program of
the AEC would, like in a 1945 incident after ‘Trinity,’ cause damage
to their film stock.

Kodak threatened to sue the AEC. The AEC capitulated to the legal
threats. Kodak was given ‘Q Clearance’ for maps and forecasts of all
bomb tests.

When it was learned years later that no American was given these maps
and forecasts – only Kodak and its industry peers – the reaction of
those who came to realize their bodies too became ‘exposed’ by the
fallout was one of anger and rage.



Read entire story here:

[link to nuclear-news.net]


disgusting liars.