Even Christie Brinkley Not Enough To Interest Reporters In Scientific Study
"In 1961, as John Kennedy was poised to resume atmospheric testing after a two-year moratorium, he met with White House science adviser Jerome Wiesner in the Oval Office one rainy day. The president wondered how fallout reached the earth. Wiesner explained that it was washed out of the clouds by rain. 'You mean,' Kennedy asked, 'it's in the rain out there?' As Wiesner tells it, the president then 'looked out the window, looked very sad and didn't say a word for several minutes." Nonetheless JFK, fearful that the Soviet Union might score a nuclear breakthrough, authorized a new round of above-ground testing before negotiating the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963."
Politics Daily's Walter Shapiro was the only reporter to show up at a press conference announcing the results of a study on the effects of nuclear atmospheric testing during the Cold War. Here's what he learned.
I get very, very sad when I think about what this country might have become if JFK had lived. I'm not someone who idealizes him by any means, but if he, and then Bobby had been President successively…\
*sigh (sits on top of doghouse winsomely).
I know what you mean, Oliver Stone would never have made 'JFK'
heh.
Great piece. But "American history is littered with examples of the government and powerful corporations callously jeopardizing the health and even the lives of the poor, the downtrodden and racial and ethnic minorities. But nuclear testing illustrates a much different lesson: we all share the same Earth… blah blah rich suffered too…"
Um. Not really. It's not "MUCH different." It was still the same players "callously jeopardizing health and lives."
When you put "Christie Brinkley" next to "JFK" it activates the Billy-Joel's-We-Didn't-Start-The-Fire quadrant of my brain and then I get all mad the he rhymed
"Starkweather, homicide"
with
"children of thalidomide".
So thanks.
Thanks for sharing.
This work hasn't been published in a peer reviewed journal; maybe that's why it wasn't reported on.
"…Some people never had experience with aaiii-iiirrr." Ah, the all-too-rare Tina Weymouth vocals, even if just the one-word chorus (and joined by her sisters).
in his book on radiation and human health, the cellular biologist and nuclear fission specialist john gofman speculated that in future, worldwide epidemic of lung cancers could appear due to plutonium fallout from atmospheric bomb testing. is much simpler to blame cigarette smoking and other behavioral factors than to confront any possibility of gigantic class action however remote.
So I can keep smoking then?
Bloomberg? Bloomberg?
Bloomberg?
Also, there is nothing to do about it now, which makes people feel helpless, and there is nothing to buy as a result of this information, which makes people confused.
To be fair, Christie didn't show up to my press conferences in my parent's basement in 1987. In fact, I was told to stop inviting her.