Government radiation estimates undercounted public exposure by up to 3,000-fold.

Evidence

The radiation exposure emanating from these tests was only fully measured for 111 tests. Within just the first three years, 220 above-ground tests spewed fallout over a large area. … The government maintained that the maximum radiation exposure from the tests was equivalent to that of a single chest xray. But in 1997, the National Cancer Institute made public a study of radiation exposure from above-ground nuclear tests that showed that some 160 million people had suffered significant radiation exposure from the tests, on average 200 times more than the amount indicated by the government. In some parts of the country, the exposure was found to be 2,000 to 3,000 times that amount. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 496

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Navajo uranium cancer statistics and the pattern of official denial of harm documented across this polyad’s case studies. — connects to: The government routed nuclear fallout toward Shoshone territory and miscounted their exposure. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 502