James Pietragallo

Remember, they have the rooftop viewing parties where people would eat dinner and you'd watch the nuclear explosions and just get shitloads of radiation.

Because if you can see it, it's getting you.

That's the problem.

The winds go right through there and basically carried the fallout directly to St.

George.

Whoops.

Whoops.

Might as well have brought it in, like, a package with a bow on it and said, Candy Graham, and, you know, handed it over, and then Fallout comes out.

Yeah.

So there's, oh, a tail.

That's not normal.

So there was huge increases in the frequency of cancer in the population, including leukemia, lymphoma, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, bone cancer, brain tumors, gastrointestinal tract cancers.

I think they could just say all the cancers.

Holy.

This was reported from the mid-50s until the early 80s, basically, until all those people kind of died off and cycled out.

30 years of that shit.

Yep.

In 1980, People magazine reported that from about 220 cast and crew members who filmed the 1956 movie The Conqueror on location near St.

George, 91 of those people out of 220 had come down with cancer.

91 out of 220.