Comments by "Fred Bloggs" (@fredbloggs5902) on "How Britain planned to detonate a nuclear weapon at an English seaside town" video.

  1. It’s now thought that John Wayne, Susan Hayward and as many as 90 other people got cancer as the result of filming in a location contaminated by bomb tests.
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  2. Let’s not forget that the processing plant producing the fissile material for these British bombs was at ‘Windscale’... ...In 1957 they had a fire that resulted in contamination that may have killed as many as 240 people (and arguably still is today). The scandal was so great they stopped referring to it as ‘Windscale’ and used ‘Sellafield’ instead.
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  3. The British government also allegedly continued to use factor-8 derived from American blood donors with HIV to treat haemophiliacs in the U.K. long after they knew of the risks... ...this was because they wanted to determine the transmissibility of HIV within the ‘normal’ population. Fortunately for all concerned the risk turned out to be around 4 to 8 in 10,000.
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  4. If you Google images ‘Vegas Atom” there are photographs taken overlooking Las Vegas with an atom bomb test explosion visible in the background.
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