Sunday, October 7, 2012
The Clan of the One-Breasted Women
I liked this reading because is is very easy to follow. It is interesting to me learning about a time period in my own country where questioning the government was such a bad thing. It would have been hard for me to accept an absolute authority and to follow it blindly. It's unbelievable that there were bomb testings being held so close to the those who inhabited Utah. It sounds like it would have been extremely dangerous living conditions.
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It really does seem like the living conditions were terrible and there was nothing you could do because the government never cared.
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ReplyDeleteTo be fair to the government actors within this story and the time period in which these nuclear test were being conducted; the government did not have the information regarding the long-term and wide-spread adverse affects that nuclear explosions contained. The government had little idea of how long or what would be the long-term risks involved decades and centuries later on all sorts of populations and the environmental impacts so the fact that the government even tried to find remotely unpopulated areas in the first place should be sign enough that the government was not out to bring upon these people bad reactions especially among their own citizens. I mean, this was a time period where officials thought putting their students under desks during a nuclear attack was an effective contingency plan! But, I definately agree with others that these women and everyone else that got sick from such government actions should have and still should recieve compensation for their misfortune brought upon them by the government actors involved.
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