Government Cover-Ups

August 5, 2016 By Greg Mitchell, Pressing IssuesI've posted dozens of pieces about the atomic bombing (before and after) of Japan in August 1945.  Here's a story, from my book Atomic Cover-Up,  on what happened, weeks later, when the first U.S. troops arrived. On September 8, General Thomas F. Ferrell arrived in Hiroshima with a radiologist and two physicists from Los Alamos, ordered by Manhattan Project chief General Leslie Groves to return to Tokyo the following day with preliminary findings. There was some urgency.

June 29th, 2016 By Mathieu Gaulène (Reporterre), nuclear-news

June 27th, 2016 By , FASThe US Navy has quietly built a new $294 million underground nuclear weapons storage complex at the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific (SWFPAC), a high-security base in Washington that stores and maintains the Trident II ballistic missiles and their nuclear warheads for the strategic submarine fleet operating in the Pacific Ocean. The SWFPAC and the eight Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) homeported at the adjacent Bangor Submarine Base are located only 20 miles (32 kilomete

June 21, 2016, RT

June 19, 2016 By Dave Phillips, The New York TimesIt was a late winter night in 1966 and a fully loaded B-52 bomber on a Cold War nuclear patrol had collided with a refueling jet high over the Spanish coast, freeing four hydrogen bombs that went tumbling toward a farming village called Palomares, a patchwork of small fields and tile-roofed white houses in an out-of-the-way corner of Spain’s rugged southern coast that had changed little since Roman times.It was one of the biggest nuclear accidents in history, and the United States wanted it cleaned up

May 26, 2016 By Clyde Haberman, The New York TimesIn combat, lives can be erased in an instant. Military men and women accept that as a given. But what if peril stalks them as civilians, long after the guns have fallen silent? As the years pass, does the nation bear an abiding obligation to them when they find they face death on the installment plan?These are questions that have long dogged a particular group of Americans, several hundred thousand of them, nearly all men.

May 20, 2016 By Susannah Frame, KINGWorkers at the Hanford Site near the Tri-Cities are demanding change after a record number of people have sought medical attention and made trips to the hospital after exposure to suspected chemical vapors on the job.The most recent event occurred on May 18 as two maintenance workers outside of AY tank farm reported “odor concerns” and were transported to the onsite medical clinic.

May 3, 2016 By Joel Grover and Matthew GlasserCancer-struck workers at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California have been denied state compensation in order to keep the danger posed by the nuclear site to nearby residential areas out of the public eye, a former employee told RT. READ

Supporters of atomic power, who are not scientists, have been able to broadcast their opinions to the public with hellacious titles such as Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Putting Indian Point Hysteria in Perspective by attorney and lobbyist Jerry Kremer for the Huffington Post. In an effort to combat misinformation and keep you informed, Fairewinds reached out to international radiation expert Dr.