The bombs they detonated in the Bikini Islands as well as the deserts of Nevada had a devastating effect on not only the surrounding communities, but also on the people who lived thousands of miles away.
"Above are the per capita thyroid doses (in rads) in the continental United States resulting from all exposure routes from all atmospheric nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site from 1951–1962."
My concern was if fallout from tests was reaching as far east as Vermont, what kind of exposure remained in the bodies of everyone who was alive at the time the tests took place. Not only was I concerned about the exposure that people had from this time, but also what effects this exposure had to have had on their children. I grew up in the same place as Maria from the preface of Toxic Bodies, and I was unaware that breastfeeding could cause the harmful substances in the rivers to be transferred to the child. If toxins such as these could move through breastfeeding, does this mean the radiation may have also been passed along to the child?
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