It is not widely known that after the above ground nuclear tests in America, incidence of lung cancer doubled every decade until the 1990s, even while smoking was decreasing.
Plutonium is perhaps the most toxic chemical known, and only a single atom is able to cause cancer. John Wayne filmed a movie downwind from one of the tests, and almost everyone on that set subsequently died of cancer, including John Wayne.
The entire edifice of peer reviewed science has been politicized in order to 'paper over' the damning evidence that millions of Americans have been killed as a result of plutonium pollution dispersed into the atmosphere, and our lungs, by the USG.
Synchronistically, I was informed that my neighbour here was on one of he air craft carriers that sat and watched one of the original detonations off of bikini Atoll. He is still Ok, I think - but yes, I take your point.