The Official Nonsense Thread

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Today I bumped into someone I've known on & off for many years from the British Nuclear Test Veterans Association - those fighting for compensation for being used as unwitting guinea pigs by the British government out in the Pacific when we did nuclear bomb tests.

He'd been invited out to Hiroshima for the annual memorial day to the atomic bombing there, & was told by some of those out there that contrary to the official line, the city's radioactive level is still way above what is considered normal background radiation, although it's debatable what danger it poses to health.

It appears the problem is due to the geography of the area. The rain in Hiroshima flushes radioactive residue into the local delta, which ends up re-evaporating into the sky & getting rained back on the city again due to the prevailing winds, over & over. Almost 70 years later, it's still happening.