Reply #3: It's Radiation (DU/other) mutating the germs/Sakharov predicted 1950's [View All]

[seventhson]

This is well known by the military industrial and nuclear companies like Hallibrton.

They do NOT give a shit.

They do NOT test for radiological causes and thus NO ONE reports on them.

See the following articles (which positions got this father of the Soviet H-Bomb labelled a refusenik by the Soviets):

http://www2.math.uic.edu/~takata/test_ban/427_megatons_atmospheric.htm

(do a term search for "mutations" on the page and keep reading)

excerpt from link:

The article which Sakharov refers to is quite readable and is available at http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/pdf/1_3-4Sakharov.pdf . In the article he makes the following argument:

Nuclear bomb tests produce large amounts of radiactive carbon-14, which is chemically similar to nonradioactive carbon. Living organisms absorb and use both types of carbon.

He calculates how an atmospheric test disperses carbon-14 over the earth's surface and how much additional radiation human beings will be exposed to.

Ill effects are 1) genetic mutations egg and sperm leading to disease and death, 2) cancers in people, 3) genetic mutations in bacteria and viruses, leading to new strains and new epidemics.

Data from radiologists and X-ray technicians (i.e. those exposed to significantly larger doses of radiation on a lifetime basis) used to estimate the morbility and mortality of radiation exposure.