Supreme Court turns away veterans who seek disability benefits over 1966 hydrogen bomb accident

[edwest4]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but Spain is not near the border of the Soviet Union.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-...ity-benefits-e541ded7f3d8a17d680a07fc2105a6df

 

[Arjen]

I'm not sure I catch your drift. In the middle of the Cold War, US military personnel on duty in a cleanup of several kilograms of pyrophoric plutonium compounds receive quite unhealthy radiation doses. In what way does the distance from Soviet territory matter?

 

[edwest4]

I'm not sure I catch your drift. In the middle of the Cold War, US military personnel on duty in a cleanup of several kilograms of pyrophoric plutonium compounds receive quite unhealthy radiation doses. In what way does the distance from Soviet territory matter?

The article states: "At the time, the U.S. was keeping nuclear-armed warplanes in the air near the border with the Soviet Union."

Middle of the Cold War? The Cold War started in 1945.

 

[Arjen]

The Cold War stretched into the Eighties, so yes, the middle.
From a US point of view, Palomares, on the south eastern Spanish coast is on the far side of the Atlantic - and then a bit. A lot closer to the Soviet Union than the US east coast.