Charley Noble said, "The low-level radiation in the environment will unfortunately continue to be a threat for thousands of years. " That's what I've been trying to document and remember for some time now. Can you give some more references? Years ago I taught a class in radiochemistry and saw a similar quote in essays presented as pro and con for nuclear power plants. Perhaps it can be documented and explained more starting with some of those sources? To me this fact overrides all the discussions about various chemical and biological weapons (that can only wipe out a generation).

An aside - I don't put much stock in the various company names or the language of instructions found with "stuff." I noticed one of the pictures on my news showed the chemical barrels with the name, Rhone-Poulenc, printed on them. Even though this is a French company, subsidized by the French government, (I know, I used to work for the incompetent __________) this fact alone is totally irrelevant to any discussions about how they got there.