Talk:Downwinders

Other countries

This topic is relevant to all countries which have tested nuclear weapons, and to other civilian accidents, but only American incidents are covered. At the moment this article doesn't mention the Chernobyl disaster once. 81.155.57.75 (talk) 15:45, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

I added links to some other articles, but I'm not competent to rewrite this page. Can someone help? 81.155.57.75 (talk) 16:30, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Opinion in the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper, Saturday, May 14, 2011: http://m.santafenewmexican.com/Opinion/Second-thoughts-of--downwinders--in-New-MexicoWikiphan44 (talk) 23:24, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

I could write a section dedicated to the Soviet Union but i can't rewite the article RomanK79 (talk) 10:14, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Pregnant women

It seems a bit odd to me that, as emotional a subject as pregnancy is, the subject of pregnancy in fallout situations should have all kinds of studies associated with it. In the current article, there are only two citations: one to pregnant women's emotional health, and one on ideas for better public health systems. The citation required flag has been ignored.

I think perhaps wording like "Specifically, the pregnant woman must receive a radiation dose between the 10th and 40th day of pregnancy high enough to cause mutations, but not high enough to abort or kill the mother", may be part of the problem. Does this mean that mutations caused by radioactivity just don't count if the happen after 3 months? For most certainly, they happen throughout life; every generation passes about 150 discrete mutations from the pattern they inherit from their parents to their offspring, and that's from all sources, not just artificial radioactivity. Or does it mean that if a mutation happens when the fetus is a month old, that in itself puts the mother at risk of death? The whole paragraph is assertions and fuzzy, possibly wishful thinking in search of proof, when I would think the subject should be pinpoint, scientifically crucial.

If downwinders are going to be heard, they need better than a Jenny McCarthy level of representation on the subject, mixed with speculation on how John Wayne died that skips most of the subject material. SkoreKeep (talk) 08:53, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Hanford Thyroid Disease Study

This study was not "inconclusive", as this article's author claims. From the study's summary:

"The percentages of people with each kind of thyroid disease or with ultrasound abnormalities were about the same regardless of their estimated radiation dose from Hanford’s iodine-131."

"The findings do not prove that Hanford radiation had no effect on the health of the area population. However, they show that if there is an increased risk of thyroid disease from exposure to Hanford’s iodine-131, it is probably too small to observe using the best epidemiologic methods available."

That is a conclusion, agree with it or not.

96.226.232.173 (talk) 18:44, 15 January 2015 (UTC)D.M.SMITH

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Missouri?

Utah nuclear test fallout affects me now. I was growing up in St. Louis. 160.226.138.91 (talk) 08:51, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

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Adding a paragraph on the "compensation" section

The paragraph talks about the amendment of the 1990 RECA act to the 2000 version and some major updates that came with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HIST121-Augie-student (talk) 20:20, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Added a new paragraph

I removed the first sentence from the live article, under the compensation subtopic and added details to make a new paragraph out of it. Cherubj (talk) 20:34, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Minor edit on the 'Nevada' section

On the last sentence of the third paragraph, changed "A 2010 report evaluating data on thyroid cancer incidence from 1973 to 2004 also supports a relationship between exposure from fallout and increased thyroid cancer incidence" to "A 2010 report evaluating data on thyroid cancer incidence from 1973 to 2004 also supported a relationship between exposure from fallout and increased thyroid cancer incidence" for tense consistency and added commas "...which, with the exception of a few test failures, did not release fallout."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HIST121-Augie-student (talk) 00:17, 8 May 2024 (UTC) also, on the last sentence of the second paragraph, rephrased "...which were later collected by the Atomic Energy Commission to gather data about radiation levels." to "...which the Atomic Energy Commission later collected to gather data about radiation levels."

Minor edit on the 'Nuclear Testing' section

Replaced the very last sentence with "These nuclear tests infused vast quantities of radioactive material into the world's atmosphere, resulting in widely dispersed radiation and its subsequent deposition as global fallout." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HIST121-Augie-student (talk) 00:30, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Fixed comma splice

Added a comma in the first sentence of the second paragraph.

More generally, the term can also include those communities and individuals who are exposed to ionizing radiation and other emissions due to the regular production and maintenance of coal ash, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, nuclear waste, and geothermal energy. …” instead of “…More generally, the term can also include those communities and individuals who are exposed to ionizing radiation and other emissions due to the regular production and maintenance of coal ash, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, nuclear waste and geothermal energy….” Cherubj (talk) 14:26, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Added a missing comma

added a missing comma on the first paragraph.

…ranges primarily in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah but also… instead of …ranges primarily in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah but also… Cherubj (talk) 14:34, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Changed a conjunction

Changed the conjunction "as" to "when" in the last paragraph as it's more appropriate in the sentence.

"In fact, the health effects of radon were first widely acknowledged when Mormon and Native American miners who hardly smoke (the main reason for lung cancer) had high incidences of lung cancer." Cherubj (talk) 14:43, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Conqueror

The claim, that you would expect the human lifetime cancer rate in 24 years of live, in the Section about the movie Conqueror is pretty dubios. The source for the claim is a personal/company blog as such it's unreliable, as the person is marketing expert and not a subject matter field expert. --Jannes Althoff (talk) 06:00, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

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Hello! I am Jules Purr. I am one of the Wikipedia editors assigned to the page about the downwinders in my History course. I plan to add a new paragraph at the end of the Marshall Islands section, including the most current information available regarding legislation on the reparations designated to the Marshall Islands by the United States to help remedy the damages caused by the testing of Castle Bravo in 1954. One of my minor edits is the addition of a sentence at the end of the Current Status section detailing updated information about RECA from a 2024 Arms Control Today article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jules Purr (talk • contribs) 21:07, 3 December 2025 (UTC)