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The Cold War's Legacy of Mutation

Posted by michael on from the third-eye-blind dept.

fm6 writes: "Not surprising, but still pretty sobering: Russian communities downwind from cold-war-era surface testing sites are experiencing 50% increase in mutation rates. I'm reminded of Terry Tempest William's term: Virtual Uninhabitants."

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  1. Don't forget the US by Hard_Code · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.nuclearfiles.org/maps/

    http://rex.nci.nih.gov/massmedia/Fallout/content s. html

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    It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?