U.S. Cancers Attributable to Nuclear Testing Fallout, Government Study Shows

An estimated 80,000 people who lived in or were born in the United States between the years 1951 and 2000 will contract cancer as a result of the fallout caused by atmospheric nuclear weapons testing, according to an analysis of government studies by the Institute for Energy and Environmental, Research. Well over 15,000 of these cases would be fatal.
"This report and other official data show that hot spots occurred thousands of miles away from the test sites," said Dr. Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. "The new fallout maps and radiation dose estimates show that nuclear weapons states not only harmed their own people but also people in other countries."
Despite this classified reports leaked from the Pentagon of its' "nuclear posture review" show plans to develop a whole new generation of "mini-nukes"!
The most recent government study, a fact sheet, and official fallout maps are posted on the IEER web site http://www.ieer.org.