Friday 12 March 2010
Today thirty-six radiogenic disorders are believed to stem from the nuclear testing between 1946-58, when sixty-seven A- and H-bombs were detonated at Bikini and Enewetak. A recently released Pentagon report known as “Project 4.1” has added fuel to the controversy surrounding Bravo. Project 4.1 called for the “study of responses of human beings exposed to significant beta and gamma radiation due to fallout from high yield weapons,” and was circulated on November 10, 1953, nearly four months before the Bravo event. Glenn Alcalay ☀
