radiation

[low_delta]

Nuclear weapons are bad. Very bad. I don't say this in the sense that all weapons are bad. We know weapons are designed to kill people, but nuclear weapons are worse than that.

Conventional weapons kill people. They injure and maim people. Nuclear weapons have other effects that do far worse. The radiation hangs around. Radiation has long-term effects. It's one thing to suffer a missing limb or two, but quite another to get cancer. Or have your kids get cancer. Or your children have birth defects. Or having no chance to rebuild after the war, because your land will be a barren wasteland for the next several thousand years.

Using nuclear weapons is wrong. Evil. (Have I ever used that word before?)

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0510-04.htm

Maybe they'll make them small enough to leave no radiation behind?

I wonder if some government sponsors are working on some sort of environmental radiation cleanup technique?

Comments

[banana.livejournal.com]

After the Chernobyl disaster, there were Welsh hill farmers who weren't allowed to sell meat or milk from their farms for years afterwards. They're about 2,000 miles from the reactor.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Just in Wales? Why is that?

[banana.livejournal.com]

Don't know. I'd ask google if I had more time...