Assuming the plaintiffs can make sense of all the redacted documentation.
Finally, these and many other actions and pressures induced the Navy to hire civilian researchers and do a new historical analysis. The Bay Citizen “obtained” a draft report, dated August 6, 2012. Turns out, Treasure Island was “ground zero for repairing, scrapping, recycling and incinerating material from ships that might have absorbed radiation from atomic bomb tests in the Pacific.”
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Emily Bernier says:
August 17, 2012 at 9:14 pm (UTC -7)
I read about Treasure Island in a book called Atomic Suicide by Walter and Lao Russell. They site an article that was written by Colliers describing the spread of the radiation. It was eye-opening for me.
It starts on pg.40 of the PDF–
http://www.scribd.com/doc/85626193/Atomic-Suicide-Walter-and-Lao-Russell
William Arndt says:
August 17, 2012 at 10:13 pm (UTC -7)
See this is the type of crap that pisses me off. If you know it's dangerous.. pay the bill and get it fixed. Dragging your feet, cause you've got the moral spine of a jellyfish.. is just sad. And yeah, I find it reprehensible that they've done this..