Letter: ‘Nuclear radiation is incompatible with all life’

Published 10:06 am Monday, December 22, 2025

I watched a video interview of the last surviving Navy man on a Navy ship that was filming an experimental atomic bomb strike on a small island. The military apparently didn’t have a clue. All the men on the Navy ship died.

This last man had no appendages. No ears, no nose, no arms or legs, and apparently no manly appendages. He had a bald head and a minimum bare torso. He couldn’t have lasted much longer. But he told of the incident and the excitement of the men on the ship at the time.

I’ve read that some are promoting nuclear fission and fusion energy, the mechanisms of atomic and nuclear bombs, as “clean” energy. Nuclear radiation is incompatible with all life as we know it. It burns/scorches everything. Nuclear radiation’s half-life is in the hundreds of years.

The nuclear radiation waste at Hanford has still not been neutralized. What you cannot see can kill you. To be clear: nuclear radiation is hazardous energy, not just pollution.

MONICA TAYLOR

Astoria