The Critical Mass Energy Project, part of Ralph Nader's Public Citizen organization, keeps tab on nuclear transport, and its report on 1979 lists a hundred and twenty-two accidents, with seventeen of them involving some contamination.
Radwaste - Fred C. Shapiro
In September, 1979, the NRC received a report from the Erwin plant saying that the facility had lost track of more than 9 kilograms (about 20 lbs.) of highly enriched uranium, enough to construct at least one atomic bomb.
...Over the past decade, losses there exceeded 246 pounds.
Nukespeak -Gilette
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...CIA agents at the American Embassy in Tehran, which was later seized by radical students, failed to burn classified documents. Students retrieved the documents from the shredder and painstakingly taped them back together, in the process discovering that three of the hostages they had seized were CIA agents.
Warriors of the Night - Ernest Volkman p.327
In El Salvador alone, from October 1979...until December 1981 - approximately two years - about 30,000 people were murdered and about 600,000 refugees created. Those figures have about doubled since. Most of the murders were carried out by U.S.-backed military forces, including so-called death squads.
The Chomsky Reader - Noam Chomsky p.328
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