80,000 U.S. Cancers Caused by Bomb Test Fallout - 15,000 of Them Fatal Critics Call for Public Health Response, Compensation, Radiation Truth Commission http://www.nukewatch.com/quarterly/spring02/sp022.html

An estimated 80,000 people who were born or lived in the United States in the past 50 years have contracted or will contract cancer because of fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing, according to an analysis of government studies. Well over 15,000 of them are estimated to be fatal.The government exploded 215 A- and H-bombs above ground between 1951 and 1963, half at the Nevada Test Site and the others in the Pacific Islands