most recent updated 11/26/07

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Information about our next meeting is here.

Google Map of the Nevada Test Site. Use the slide bar on the left side of the map to change the scale of the map. The Nevada Test Site is located at the green arrow.

Downwinders Day Proclamation Signed from 2006.

NAU's Cline Library Downwider Resources

Downwinders may have a new worry: genetic damage.

AMVETS Department of California a wonderful page about military and civilian exposure to "harmless" radiation.

H.R. 2383: To protect public health and safety, should the testing of nuclear weapons by the United States be resumed.

Arizona Public Health Association.

Eleanore's Links!!

Cancer Care Unit Appreciation Day.

A SPIKE thru the heart of Devine Strake!

Devine Strake May kill you. From the Spectrum.

Devine Strake Planning by the DOD

CANCER CURE Clinical trials in 18 months.

Matheson Says Thyroid Study Highlights Nuke Testing Risks

North Korea to test bomb.

Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah.

Route 66 Postcards from the old days. Very nice.

The 21st Century motto ought to be "Not on my planet" From the Spectrum.

Yavapai County RECA papers. This may help some of us.

Newspaper stories about the not soDevine Strake

Devine Strake gets a spike driven throught it heart!

An open letter from Eleanore.

Some pictures of old Kingman.

Utah Congressman Jim Matheson I like this guy.

A new note from Laura about continued RECA funding.

Arizona Cancer stats.

A recent letter from Laura about taxes and compensation.

The RECA map which shows areas covered by RECA. (Warning - big file!)

Downwinders Letters to Congressman requesting RECA placement.

$15 Million cancer study ... and they left out Mohave County ... AGAIN ...
Article from The Gallup Independant written by Kathy Helms. A photo from Window Rock.
Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program
A current resolution of the Mohave Board of Supervisors.
Links of interest for Downwinders.

An Act of the Arizona Legislature

Our Resolution to the Mohave County Board of Supervisors

Breast Cancer Research Stamp
A Brief History of the Downwinders.

On January 28, 1999 the Centers For Disease Control released their long awaited thyroid study conducted on those exposed to off site releases of Iodine-131 from the Hanford nuclear weapons complex a generation ago. The study had been billed as a way to provide a final answer to residents downwind of Hanford during those releases about what damages may have resulted to their health. Being conducted and over seen by the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) the study was also claimed to remove any possible conflict of interest between the DOE which had operated Hanford, and which has long been criticized for conducting health studies involving its own facilities.
Read more.
Contact Mohave Down Winders and information about our next meeting.

Contact your elected representatives and tell them what you think!

Hats Our Families and Friends who have passed on.
Boots Our Families and Friends who are recovering.
Letters from our friends.

If I have forgotten someone or need to change something please email me directly at JohnnySean@Yahoo.com

40 kiloton detonated over Japan in 1945, 986 kilotons detonated in Nevada between 1951 and 1962. More.

Some Questions and Answers on the National Cancer Institute Report on Radiation Fallout from Nuclear Bomb Tests in the 1950s.

Other websites

Laura Taylor has a new website. GO LAURA.

Our New Friend, Jana Boomersbach. (That whole Winnie Ruth Judd thing is a great read).

Nuclear Attack in Kingman, Arizona a new article.

The Brookings Institution has a nice article about the Nevada Test site and several nice photos. The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940.

National Resources Defence Council Table of Known Nuclear Tests Worldwide: 1945- 1996

RECA information.

RECA compensation form in .PDF format.

Social Security Death Index Information to help you prove where people lived and worked.

The National Geographic Compensating Life Downwind of Nevada

U.S. Nuclear Testing Program in the Marshall Islands

Nuclear Claims Tribunal: Claims

Why Not The Best Compensation System For All Nuclear Weapons Victims

From the Desert News.Utahns testify at hearing on downwinder money


Reprinted here, with permission of the Kingman Daily Miner is an a series of articles by Miner Staff Writer Linda Stelp.
Part One of Five.
Part Two of Five.
Part Three of Five.
Part Four of Five.
Part Five.

Miner article of 10/26/03 by Caleb Soptelean

A new article by Linda Stelp published in the Kingman Daily Miner.





Intelligent Fallout? The iodine fallout was smart enought to know where the county line was and not cross it.

Iodine131 Fallout from NTS: Informing the Public Workshop Summary
On January 19-21, 2000, a workshop titled "I131 Fallout from NTS: Informing the Public" was held in Rockville, Maryland. It was sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and planned in consultation with a working group of citizen representatives and state health department staff. This report summarizes the workshop proceedings, for the benefit of participants and other interested individuals and organizations.



These pages were created by JohnnySean because I am angry about the names in Hats & Boots. Those are not simply names on a list, they are people I have known, worked with, partied with, cried with and loved. This web page is an inadequate expression of my grief. Also please give credit to my executive research assistant Mike Gould.

Johnny.