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In 1958, Troy Wade worked at the Nevada Test Site. His knowledge of that era comes in handy as president of the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas. "The Soviet Union tested their own atomic bomb, and suddenly this country was faced with a very different problem. Instead of developing weapons to be used against another country, suddenly this country had to defend itself against nuclear weapons developed by somebody else. That led to the establishment of the Nevada Test Site in 1950," he said.
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SPRINGDALE -- "Life Was Good," a Claudia Peterson story, and "Hot Wind," narratives of Downwinders' inspiring chronicles, will be featured Friday at 7 p.m. at the Canyon Community Center in Springdale. The film narratives are particularly cogent for residents of Southwest Utah. These family histories of survival, illness and eventual deaths are indeed the tales of Parowan families and a St. George resident who felt compelled to record their stories, seek awareness and restitution.
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Nearly 35 years after France thumbed its nose at world opinion and held a series of nuclear tests on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific, David Barber's view has not changed. It was a fundamentally wrong thing for France to do and nothing since had altered that opinion, Barber said.
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Predawn atomic fireballs and billowing mushroom clouds — plus the radioactive and political fallout accompanying them — are all part of Nevada's long-time association with nuclear weapons testing.
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MOSCOW, May 13 (UPI) -- Russia has pegged the number of nuclear tests conducted worldwide in the past 50 years at as many as 730, not including blasts set off by the Kremlin.
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