Re:France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from at...
by mytailorisrich on Friday March 12, 2021 @06:29PM
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All countries underestimate the health and environmental impacts of their military actions and experiments.
There is a part of secret because they are military operations and they are not keen on realising information (that's very true in France). Another aspect is to avoid political and public backlash against military actions and experiments. And, of course, the last aspect is financial because acknowledging the impact and its scale might be very costly in compensation.
Apart from underestimating another tactic is not to look into alleged issues at all. If there are no data there is no need to underestimate anything! A good example of that is the so-called 'Gulf War Syndrome'.
There is a part of secret because they are military operations and they are not keen on realising information (that's very true in France). Another aspect is to avoid political and public backlash against military actions and experiments. And, of course, the last aspect is financial because acknowledging the impact and its scale might be very costly in compensation.
Apart from underestimating another tactic is not to look into alleged issues at all. If there are no data there is no need to underestimate anything! A good example of that is the so-called 'Gulf War Syndrome'.