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ATOMIC TESTING MUSEUM: Downwinders feel left out.(news)
Publication: Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV) Publication Date: 26-FEB-05 |
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COPYRIGHT 2005 Las Vegas Review-Journal
BYLINE: RICHARD LAKE, REVIEW-JOURNAL
Civilians who unwittingly became test subjects in the United States' nuclear weapons program are complaining that they're being ignored by the new Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas.
"America bombed its own citizens and lied about it," said Preston Truman, director of the Downwinders.
The group's several hundred members lived in towns near the Nevada Test Site in the years that above-ground nuclear tests were conducted there, the 1950s and early 1960s.
After years of development, a museum noting the history of the test site and...
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