# Why So Many Nuclear Tests?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-nuclear-tests/586863>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 25, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-nuclear-tests/586863 "2011-06-25T23:03:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-nuclear-tests/586863/41 "2011-06-29T15:13:44Z")

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Thanks for the well-thought-out response.

> [@cckerberos](#):
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> My statement was a bit less GQ than it should have been.
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> I agree that it was disputed at the time. But I don’t think that’s currently the case. Simply put, I don’t know of any doctors who still subscribe to the theory of “radiation-induced hepatitis” as the cause of death.

Yeah, “radiation-induced hepatitis” does sound far-fetched to me (although I am not a medical person).

> [@cckerberos](#):
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> And I can’t accept it as the best that contemporary medicine could do because I’ve read statements by US doctors from both before and after his death saying, essentially, “WTF were they thinking!?”
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> But my earlier statement was a bit too strident. I should have said that his death was “probably” the result of poor medical care. There is, of course, the possibility that he would have died even if better precautions against infection had been taken.

That put it into some perspective – not just “poor” but “controversial treatment methods,” so to speak.

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-nuclear-tests/586863/42 "2011-06-29T16:14:18Z")

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> [@cckerberos](#):
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> My doctoral dissertation is on the Lucky Dragon incident, so I’ve read a lot of primary documents from the archives.

I love the Dope.

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**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-nuclear-tests/586863/43 "2011-06-29T20:21:01Z")

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> I love the Dope.

Cite? 😃

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