Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 23. maj 1984 / Time Line May 23, 1984
Version 3.005/23/1984
Nuclear fallout Cancer victims win suit in Utah but community
worries about its image
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http://newspaperarchive.com/waterloo-courier/1984-05-23/page-11/
By MARJIE LUNDSTROM, Waterloo Courier
The Denver Post ST GEORGE Utah Pickett has watched his family die
here There have been 12 cancer deaths in al.l First was his
mother-in-law then a grandmother a niece and a sister. Two weeks
before Christmas in his wife Viola died. Pickett remembers how the
dying just started like wildfire in the early part of 1951. That's
when the federal government began testing atomic bombs 100 miles
southwest of St George in the Nevada desert. For the next decade
thick radioactive clouds swept over an area stretching from the
Grand Canyon almost to Salt Lake City. This month Pickett 63 and
hundreds of others got official confirmation of something they had
suspected for nearly 33 years that government had brought death to
the Utah desert. Our own people done this to said Pickett whose
grandfather settled in the valley in the It's just incredible that
this could happen in the United States of America...
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