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The wind carried them, and those of us in its path became known as downwinders.
Burned Ellen Hopkins 2008
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Mortensen, widow of a veterinarian and one of the "downwinders" - folks living downwind of the Nevada Test Site who were exposed to cancer-causing radiation during the glory days of nuclear testing there in the 1950s and '60s - was among those who voiced never-again anger when the Defense Threat Reduction Agency came to St. George, Utah, to sell the locals on an above-ground test, known as Divine Strake, the Bush administration wants to conduct at the site.
"Un-Inventing' Nukes 2007
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The first group, the so-called downwinders, are individuals who lived a specified duration of time in certain counties downwind of the Nevada test site during period when above-ground nuclear tests were conducted.
Briefing On Radiation Experiments Recommendations ITY National Archives 1997
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This set the tone for the decades that followed, with tragic effects for "downwinders" and others tainted across the country, workers in the nuclear industry, "atomic soldiers," those who questioned the building of the hydrogen bomb and an expanding arms race, among others.
Greg Mitchell: Secrecy, Cover-ups and Deadly Radiation: On the Birth of the Nuclear Age 65 Years Ago 2010
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This set the tone for the decades that followed, with tragic effects for "downwinders" and others tainted across the country, workers in the nuclear industry, "atomic soldiers," those who questioned the building of the hydrogen bomb and an expanding arms race, among others.
Greg Mitchell: Secrecy, Cover-ups and Deadly Radiation: On the Birth of the Nuclear Age 65 Years Ago 2010
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Anti-nuke protesters and advocates for the thousands of "downwinders" who suffered cancer caused by the radioactive residue are irked that their side of the story is barely mentioned at an institution largely funded by former test-site workers.
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Divine Strake yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Divine Strake'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: It\'s all the worst sort of deja vu for the "downwinders" of Nevada, Utah, Idaho and other states: not just the idea of a mushroom cloud - or, as an editorial cartoon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal put it, "a very large, extended middle finger" - but the insidious governmental assurances that the public has nothing to worry about.'
Divine Strake 2006
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NEWS UPDATE: Bill proposes to compensate Guam "downwinders" for radioactive testing decades ago
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NEWS UPDATE: Bill proposes to compensate Guam "downwinders" for radioactive testing decades ago
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Hundreds or even thousands of "downwinders" have suffered or died from radiation-induced cancers and other disease, and it is not unusual for families from the area to have lost several children to leukemia and other cancers, she said.
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