Category
page 1Nuclear fallout
nuclear fallout
residual radioactive material following a nuclear blast
fallout shelter
enclosed space specially designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout
Project GABRIEL
US government research study
downwinder
Downwinders were individuals and communities, in the United States, in the intermountain West between the Cascade and Rocky Mountain ranges primarily in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah but also in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho who were exposed to radioactive contamination or nuclear fallout from atmospheric or underground nuclear weapons testing, and nuclear accidents. Although, when the term first originated, it mainly referred to the affected peoples near the Nevada Test Site (NTS), but the label has since expanded to include people experiencing negative effects of radiation in places