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Originally Posted by theking
...coming from Japan...and being catastrophic...let me remind you that there has been more than 100 nuclear bombs detonated in the atmosphere in the CONUS with negligible effects upon the U.S. population. There were also many atmospheric tests conducted by the U.S. in the Pacific. The U.S....Britain and Russia took their nuclear tests underground in 1963 but other countries continued atmospheric tests until 1980.
Any radiation that may come to the U.S. from Japan is of no major import.
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Given how old you are, you should have learned by now that one can never say never... Likelihood is low but then again I'm sure they thought the likelihood of 3 reactors possibly going into meltdown was very low as well. Situations can always align to make things bad. Course I noticed you used the word "catastrophic" and everyone would have a different opinion of what that could mean.
Any issues in the states wouldn't be directly from any radiation. It would be from the subsequent economic effects. It's already bad. Now imagine food crops affected, possibly for years, costs go up. Imports from Japan go down and thus costs go up. People put less money into the economy etc. etc. etc.
How many things have happened in the last few years that no one believed there was any likelihood of?