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		dboreham on March 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: White House told federal health agency to classify... For reference: the western governments didn't tell us the truth about Chernobyl either.

Ididntdothis on March 11, 2020 [–]

In what way?

dboreham on March 12, 2020 | [–]

They said that it was "just steam explosion" and "not nuclear explosion in any way", even though they must (through sigint, atmospheric sampling, and remote sensing) have known otherwise at the time.

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