Caution to the wind.
- Videocassette (VHS)(29 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in.
Thirty years ago, people from the small town of St. George in the American West were encouraged to climb to the hilltops and see history in the making by watching the U.S. government's atomic bomb tests. They were patriotic people who instinctively trusted their government when it said no harm would come to them. Today, that trust is gone. Twelve hundred of them are dead or dying from cancer. Now the survivors climb the hills to remember those whom a public inguiry has described as guinea pigs in a deadly experiment. This summer, in an unprecedented court action, those twelve hundred will be sueing the U.S. government for allegedly maiming and killing the citizens of this small town. The townspeople insist that they're the victims of the years when the American government threw 'caution to the wind'.
Nuclear explosions.
Radioactive substances--Safety regulations--St. George, Utah.
Radioactive substances--Law and legislation--St. George, Utah.
Atomic power--Law and legislation--St. George, Utah.
Radioactive fallout--St. George, Utah.
Thirty years ago, people from the small town of St. George in the American West were encouraged to climb to the hilltops and see history in the making by watching the U.S. government's atomic bomb tests. They were patriotic people who instinctively trusted their government when it said no harm would come to them. Today, that trust is gone. Twelve hundred of them are dead or dying from cancer. Now the survivors climb the hills to remember those whom a public inguiry has described as guinea pigs in a deadly experiment. This summer, in an unprecedented court action, those twelve hundred will be sueing the U.S. government for allegedly maiming and killing the citizens of this small town. The townspeople insist that they're the victims of the years when the American government threw 'caution to the wind'.
Nuclear explosions.
Radioactive substances--Safety regulations--St. George, Utah.
Radioactive substances--Law and legislation--St. George, Utah.
Atomic power--Law and legislation--St. George, Utah.
Radioactive fallout--St. George, Utah.