Political Quotes

“Let me add to my friend, yes, we did conduct in the Pacific, but something did happen afterward. There was world outrage what our country was doing in testing in the Marshall Islands for one obvious reason. Do you know what happened? We found strontium 90 in dairy products. The clouds had shifted and it affected all over the different regions of the world. So we had good reason for having to stop because there was a real serious hazard in conducting atmospheric tests at the time. In fact, it was at the time that the Soviet Union and our country made a band not to conduct any more atmospheric tests. We told France, please do not do this because we know the aftereffects. Do you know what happened? No way. They exploded 12 nuclear atomic explosions in the atmosphere. Let me tell you of the problems that caused, that situation when the French Government went ahead and did it, totally disregarded the warnings from our own Government. Yes, we paid the price and we are still trying to compensate for the lives of those men, women, and children on the islands of Rongelap and Utirik to this day because those people were directly subjected to nuclear contamination and forever their lives will never be the same because they are now subjected to leukemia and all forms of cancer.”