米核実験の被害者「私たちの実態見て」 オバマ氏に訴え
トゥラローサ＝平山亜理
2016年5月29日09時03分
トゥラローサ＝平山亜理
2016年5月29日09時03分
朝日新聞のこの記事を読んで、
場所がニューメキシコというので興味を持ち
ちょっと調べてみました。
するとパブリックテレビで
昨年、こんな特集をしていました。
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July 29, 2015
70 years after nuclear tests, New Mexico town fights for compensation
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The first test of a nuclear bomb took place 70 years ago this month in the desert of southern New Mexico, where some say the effects are still being felt.
Forty miles downwind from the test site sits the town of Tularosa, where residents claim radiation fallout from the test caused a cancer spike that has affected virtually every family in town and claimed nearly 300 hundred lives.
In 1945, a flash of light and seven mile-high mushroom cloud signaled the success of a secret government project to develop a nuclear weapon. Residents say radioactive ash rained down from the sky in the hours after the explosion. Ash coated homes, fields and livestock and entered water cisterns. The test bomb was the same size and power as the one that fell on Nagasaki, Japan 24 days later at the end of World War Two.
A 2010 report from the Centers for Disease Control showed that levels around the first nuclear test — known as Trinity — were nearly 10,000 times the usual limit for public areas.
But Chuck Wiggins of the New Mexico Tumor Registry said data shows that cancer rates in Tularosa are about the same as other parts of the state.
Tularosa residents created an organization to gather health information from their area and lobby the government for an apology and their inclusion in the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. The Act, passed in 1990, awards between $50,000 and $100,000 to miners, participants and residents from communities near about 200 nuclear test sites. No New Mexico residents were included in the bill.
The National Cancer Institute has announced plans to assess the extent of exposure that took place after the original test, but many Tularosa residents say the study comes 70 years too late.
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彼の奥さんも、そして
ティナ・コルドバさんも出て来ます。
そして⬇️はシカゴトリビューンの記事。
Residents near New Mexico nuclear test site seek Obama visit
RUSSELL CONTRERASAssociated Press
Residents of a historic Hispanic village near the site where the U.S. government tested the first atomic bomb have praised President Barack Obama's planned visit to Hiroshima — the Japanese city devastated by the first a-bomb used in war.
The residents, however, also want Obama to visit their village of Tularosa.
They say generations of villagers have suffered from cancers and other health problems resulting from the Trinity Test, but the federal government has yet to fully acknowledge those effects.
"It's high time that the federal government acknowledges the sacrifices New Mexicans made," said Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders. "We are still suffering from it."
The White House announced Tuesday that Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima.
The Aug. 6, 1945, attack on the city killed 140,000 people. Another bomb dropped on Nagasaki three days later killed 70,000 people. Japan surrendered less than a week later.
Scientists working in the secret city of Los Alamos, New Mexico, developed the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project. The bomb was tested in a stretch of desert near towns with Hispanic and Native American residents.
Residents did not learn it was an atomic bomb until the U.S. dropped the weapon on Japan a month later.
Cordova said Tularosa will hold a candlelight vigil on July 16 — the anniversary of the Trinity Test — and invite Obama to attend.
She said her group is collecting health surveys from affected residents using a $25,000 Santa Fe Community Foundation grant and hoping to get more money to organize the data.
Tularosa and other area residents were not included in the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act program, which provides a $50,000 payout as compensation for health problems.
The law only covers areas in Nevada, Arizona and Utah that are downwind from a different test site.
Officials with the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Division, which oversees the program, said Congress would have to amend the act to expand payouts to New Mexico residents.
Cordova said affected people in New Mexico may have been excluded because of racism since many are Hispanic and American Indian.
In a statement, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., said residents of Tularosa deserve recognition from their government and coverage under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
"But while our nation has long recognized the horrific suffering endured by the victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we have not adequately recognized the suffering endured by the victims of the Trinity blast right here in New Mexico," Udall said.
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RUSSELL CONTRERASAssociated Press
Residents of a historic Hispanic village near the site where the U.S. government tested the first atomic bomb have praised President Barack Obama's planned visit to Hiroshima — the Japanese city devastated by the first a-bomb used in war.
The residents, however, also want Obama to visit their village of Tularosa.
They say generations of villagers have suffered from cancers and other health problems resulting from the Trinity Test, but the federal government has yet to fully acknowledge those effects.
"It's high time that the federal government acknowledges the sacrifices New Mexicans made," said Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders. "We are still suffering from it."
The White House announced Tuesday that Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima.
The Aug. 6, 1945, attack on the city killed 140,000 people. Another bomb dropped on Nagasaki three days later killed 70,000 people. Japan surrendered less than a week later.
Scientists working in the secret city of Los Alamos, New Mexico, developed the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project. The bomb was tested in a stretch of desert near towns with Hispanic and Native American residents.
Residents did not learn it was an atomic bomb until the U.S. dropped the weapon on Japan a month later.
Cordova said Tularosa will hold a candlelight vigil on July 16 — the anniversary of the Trinity Test — and invite Obama to attend.
She said her group is collecting health surveys from affected residents using a $25,000 Santa Fe Community Foundation grant and hoping to get more money to organize the data.
Tularosa and other area residents were not included in the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act program, which provides a $50,000 payout as compensation for health problems.
The law only covers areas in Nevada, Arizona and Utah that are downwind from a different test site.
Officials with the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Division, which oversees the program, said Congress would have to amend the act to expand payouts to New Mexico residents.
Cordova said affected people in New Mexico may have been excluded because of racism since many are Hispanic and American Indian.
In a statement, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., said residents of Tularosa deserve recognition from their government and coverage under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
"But while our nation has long recognized the horrific suffering endured by the victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we have not adequately recognized the suffering endured by the victims of the Trinity blast right here in New Mexico," Udall said.
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