Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test

IF 1.9 4区 社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI:10.1080/00963402.2023.2223078
Lesley M. M. Blume
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ABSTRACT The Trinity test site was chosen, in part, for its supposed remove from human inhabitation. Yet nearly half-a-million people were living within a 150-mile radius of the explosion, with some as close as 12 miles away. None were warned or evacuated by the US government ahead of time. After the blast went off, fallout snowed down across the landscape for days, contaminating water and food sources. Children played with the hot flakes. Then pets and livestock began to die. Still, no one was told the truth, nor were government efforts made to evacuate the surrounding populations—despite warnings from Manhattan Project doctors and physicists that the radiation hazard for these civilians was, in their words, “very significant.” Nearly eight decades later, Trinity test “downwinders” still await government recognition and restitution.
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附带伤害:1945年三位一体试验的美国平民幸存者
选择三位一体试验场,部分原因是它应该远离人类居住。然而,有近50万人生活在距离爆炸发生地150英里的范围内,有些人甚至住在距离爆炸发生地12英里的地方。没有人事先得到美国政府的警告或撤离。在爆炸发生后的几天里,放射性尘埃像雪一样落在整个地区,污染了水和食物来源。孩子们玩着滚烫的雪花。接着,宠物和牲畜开始死亡。然而,没有人被告知真相,政府也没有采取措施疏散周围的居民——尽管曼哈顿计划的医生和物理学家警告说,辐射对这些平民的危害“非常严重”。近80年后,三一测试的“顺风车”仍在等待政府的承认和赔偿。
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