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Recently, we have found some information that the United States Navy scuttled 

 many of the ships that were used during the nuclear testing of the 1940's. Many of 

 these ships were radioactive as a result of the testing and then they were sunk off 

 the California coast. Although we have asked the Navy to verify this information 

 and release us related facts, I bring this up here to underline the pattern of casually 

 dumping radioactive materials in our oceans. 



These thoughts are not encouraging. We cannot be proud of the government's 

 past efforts on this to protect the public and we cannot go ahead ignoring all the 

 gaps in the recollection of what was done. We must get a complete picture first and 

 that will mean active monitoring of fish, other sea food, water samples and ocean 

 sediments to measure any effects on the food chain and the marine environment. 

 Hopefully, this will produce not only greater future safeguards but also knowledge 

 upon which to base any future decisions about dumping nuclear wastes into the 



