A Readiness to Harm: The Health Effects of Nuclear Weapons Complexes
Written by Arjun Makhijani for Arms Control Today, July/August 2005
On September 29, 1957, at 4:20 p.m., an enormous explosion in a tank containing highly radioactive waste occurred in the Mayak nuclear weapons plant in the southern Ural mountains of the Soviet Union. The fallout plume spread strontium-90 and other dangerous radionuclides over more than 15,000 square kilometers, which remain contaminated to this day. ...
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Posted October 4, 2005