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The recent claim that strontium-90 resulting from tests of nuclear weapons has killed 400,000 children in the United States since 1945 does not stand up to careful analysis.
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LINDOP, P., ROTBLAT, J. Strontium-90 and Infant Mortality. Nature 224, 1257–1260 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2241257a0
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