Another big issue was that the US Military used to dump quite a few metric tonnes in barrels of nuclear waste (some high level such as spent fuel rods) off of the coast of California near San Diego (on purpose! -it was an accepted method of disposal of radioactive material in those days). These rusty barrels have been leaking for decades since during the earlier days of the Cold War (1950s and 60’s), and the US Gov’t is hardly doing anything about remediating the problem. You hardly ever hear about it, and I believe the last time I even heard it brought up was a quick mention in a Cousteau programme on PBS.

Some Google searches will probably bring up a bunch on the whole issue of nuke trash at sea. Stuff with a half-life of hundreds, thousands, or millions of years is pretty bad news!

There are three US and over four Russian nuclear powerr plants now on the ocean bottom, abandoned. They have been monitored for years; the ocean water has not been affected.

What would you do with all the German nerve gas? The gas Iraq used on their people? Old mustard gas?

George Curtis, UH

Truly criminal.

Thank you for this important information.