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...Soviets found so objectionable-that their leadership is illegitimate, aberrational and doomed-resounded through Reagan's rhetoric for nearly two years. The President repeatedly charged that the Soviets "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat" and would end up on "the ash heap of history...
Historical evidence supports these claims by Keju, a long-time activist on behalf of the Micronese. The story of the Japanese fisherman on the "Lucky Dragon" vessel is well known. The 1954 Bravo surface detonation of the 15-megaton bomb left the customary ash that accompanies fallout. Shortly afterwards several of the men experienced nausea, vomiting and itching skin--common symptoms of radiation exposure. Several crew members eventually fell ill and died. The U.S. government gave $2 million in compensation to the Japanese government...
...active neighbor, Kilauea, 20 miles away, began a new eruption of its own: it is the first time the two volcanoes have spurted simultaneously since 1868. There were, in addition, apocalyptic rumblings on the mainland, where Washington State's Mount St. Helens was once more sputtering smoke and ash...
...workers emerged with broken bones and lacerations. Craters from previous underground nuclear tests pock the desert floor elsewhere on the 1,350-sq.-mi. site. But officials said they had had no reason to expect such a result in the mesa because it is made up of hardened volcanic ash and granite. In the past 20 years, the Government has exploded 45 nuclear devices with no ill effects in the tunnels bored under the mesa. Indeed, until last week there had been no direct injuries from the more than 600 atomic tests conducted in Nevada since...
...contents of that refrigerator would be much more difficult to dispose of than all those ash-laden trucks. Coal ash is essentially inert and harmless. Used nuclear fuel rods, which are 12 ft. long and ½ in. in diameter and are fastened together in bundles reminiscent of the fasces carried by magisterial aides of ancient Rome, remain very dangerous. Contaminated by such fission products as strontium 90, cesium 137 and plutonium 239, they are not only physically hot (at several hundred degrees), but will remain radioactive for thousands of years...