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1951-1962: Radioactive iodine-131 fallout blanketed nearly the entire US in gov’t nuclear tests

SOTT – Sign Of The Times

By John Fleetwood

Fri, 30 May 2025 19:03 UTC

The American public was dosed — without consent.

Between 1951 and 1962, the U.S. government detonated more than 100 nuclear bombs in the open air — at the Nevada Test Site and elsewhere — releasing radioactive fallout into skies that didn’t respect state lines, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute.

Among the most dangerous byproducts was iodine-131 (I-131), a radioactive isotope that seeks out and embeds itself in the human thyroid gland, particularly in children.

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