Talk:Downwinders

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Opinion in the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper, Saturday, May 14, 2011: http://m.santafenewmexican.com/Opinion/Second-thoughts-of--downwinders--in-New-Mexico Wikiphan44 (talk) 23:24, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]