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Flabbergasted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-27-06 08:04 PM
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Since 1945 there have been 2051 nuclear tests on our planet.


This adds up to an average of one nuclear explosion every 10 days for the past 58 years.

These atomic tests have caused enormous human suffering in the form of cancers, birth defects and social upheaval, and environmental destruction without precedent. The effects have been felt especially by Indigenous People, who have seen their lives and homelands sacrificed for what officials have misleadingly called safe nuclear tests and activities.

The governments of Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, Russia and the US have all been guilty of nuclear colonialism and racism, by choosing to test their nuclear bombs on the land of Indigenous Peoples' communities.




http://www.motherearth.org/nuke/ctbt1.php
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