[RWebb]

quite a few Nevada ranchers say they or their wives had problems, and so did their live stock (mostly sheep)

maybe the worst effects on US civilians from the Atom Bomb program were the "downwinders" in Wash. & Idaho from operations at Hanford -- so far at least (there is still a giant subsurface pool of contamination that is slowly working its way to the Columbia River... )

it's hard to get a real good read on the effects b/c of govt. secrecy, alarmism, and the lack of definitive studies