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Springtime in the Southwest, 1953

[image error]I-131 exposure to American civilians over 50+ years of weapons testing.  That exposure is conservatively estimated to have caused 28,000 cases of thyroid cancer. 

Spring of 1953 figures prominently in the stories of downwind residents, many of whom witnessed the mushroom clouds on the horizons from their playgrounds and remember the catastrophic livestock die-offs and miscarriages that followed in subsequent months.

Thanks to Theresa Trebon, who helped comb through hundreds of feet of microfilm to survey newspapers from the downwind region.