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PBS Specials

Downwinders and the Radioactive West (2022x7)


Air date: Oct 03, 2022

In the 1950s and ‘60s, the U.S. government conducted a series of nuclear tests in the Nevada desert. The resulting fallout would kick off a decades-long debate over cancer rates, the costs of patriotism, and the responsibility of a nation to protect its citizens

  • Premiered: Feb 1964
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