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FairWinds

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2. We Nuked Ourselves . .

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 04:05 PM

Jun 2016

there are around 250,000 US atomic veterans.

Not to mention hundreds of thousands of exposed civilian
downwinders, technicians, construction workers.

Does the National Security State care? No, not a whit.

Veterans For Peace

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