Inside the nuclear underworld: Deformity and fear

[bananas]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/30/btsc.chance.nukes/index.html

updated 12:49 p.m. EDT, Fri August 31, 2007

Inside the nuclear underworld: Deformity and fear

Story Highlights:
- Thousands in Kazakhstan remain scarred from decades of nuclear tests
- The Soviet Union did not evacuate villages when testing began
- Deformed woman: "If only there had been no bombs, I could have been equal"
- The problem of deformities is so big that there's a museum of mutations

By Matthew Chance

Editor's note: In our Behind the Scenes series, CNN correspondents share their experiences in covering news and analyze the stories behind the events. CNN's Matthew Chance was given rare access to Kazakh villages where above-ground nuclear tests have left generations scarred. Here, he describes what he saw for CNN.com.

SEMEY, Kazakhstan (CNN) -- Kazakhstan's nuclear orphans are a distressing sight.

This young child slept at an orphanage, his deformities the result of nuclear testing in the region.

The first child I met in the local orphanage was lying limply in his crib. His giant, pale head was perched on his tiny shoulders, covered in bed sores, like a grotesquely painted paper-mâché mask. Peering out, a pair of tiny black eyes darted around.

It took me a few seconds to understand what I was seeing. The doctor told me he was 4 years old.

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[Dead_Parrot]

1. It's interesting...

...that an article on the effects of nuclear weapons completely fails to mention the two times they've been purposefully used on large civilian population centres.

Why is that, I wonder?

[NNadir]

2. I suppose we can ignore the effects of gasoline bombs on people.

Obviously we couldn't care less, even when we are killing right now for gasoline.

It's interesting that the same people, egged on by the same media that told us that the reason to kill in Iraq was uranium and not gasoline, pathetic little twits who try to confuse nuclear weapons and nuclear power, couldn't care less about tying dangerous fossil fuel wars to their fucking cars.

CNN has been hopeless retarded ever since Wolf Blitzer - oil and gas shill - started prattling on about weapons of mass destruction. CNN knows doodly squat about the question and never has and never will know more than doodly squat about the question.

They couldn't care less how many people die or are maimed from dangerous fossil fuel wars. They would never dare to run this picture:



They couldn't care less over at the Cretin News Network.

[OKIsItJustMe]

3. Were they tested in peacetime affecting civilian populations?

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[amandabeech]

4. Do you have a link for the chart?

Does it include background radiation?