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"...there is no threshold dose-level (no safe dose, no risk-free dose) of ionizing radiation", John William Gofman,  Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology in the University of California at Berkeley, and Lecturer at the Department of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco, co-holder with Glenn Seaborg and Raymond Stoughton of the patent for the slow and fast neutron fissionability of uranium-233, with its application to production of nuclear power or nuclear weapons.

Radiated Veterans of America is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501 (c)(19) Veterans Service Organization. incorporated as a not-for-profit in the State of Nevada. Donations are, in most cases, deductible from income. If you have any questions contact your tax consultant. Funds are sorely needed to carry the RVA message to Congress, the Administration and the American People.

Please send donations to:

Radiated Veterans of America, Inc.

2533 N. Carson St. Suite 5866

Carson City, Nevada 89706

Hey Gulf Was Vets!!!!

Depleted Uranium (DU) emits ionizing radiation.

As earlier Atomic Vets have found out the results of low-level radiation may take years to do its "dirty work."

Don't take a chance, Join Radiated Vets and push for Congressional Legislation guaranteeing medical care and compensation for problems that develop after exposure.

Atomic Vets in the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, and all Expatriates!!!

RVA is here for you too!  So please join us. We are all in this together.

Three Atomic Veteran Members of RVA traveled to Japan in Mid-April 2011 to meet with Survivors and Second Generation persons affected by the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The meeting were held in Nagasaki, and resulted in two agreements between the "hibakusha" (radiated people) and RVA to work jointly to gain justice and compensation for American, Japanese and others affected by ionizing radiation. RVA officers making the trip were Richard H. Ellett, RVA president; John D. Bankston and Terry T. Brady, both members of the RVA Board of Directors. Bankston, who first went to Nagasaki in 1945, soon after the bombing, as a member of the 2nd Marine Division, was making his first return.

More reports and video material of this trip, which firmly places the Japanese and American parties as cooperators, will be available in the near future. Both the governments of the United States and Japan were roundly, and rightly, criticized for failures in past dealing with  victims of nuclear radiation.

The Following Members of the United States House of Representative (111th Congress) stood behind Atomic and other veterans by co-sponsoring HR 2573 (that died in committee). Please give them your THANKS: Shelley Berkey, Timothy Bishop, Robert A. Brady, Anh "Joseph" Chao, Michael F. Doyle, Fatah Chaka, Raul M. Grivalja, Maurice D. Hinchey, Mazie K. Hirono, Rush D. Holt, Ben Ray Lujan, Thaddeus McCotter, James McGovern, Glenn C. Nye, Ed Pastor, Collin Peterson, Mike Quigley, Harry Teague, Glenn Thompson, Mike Thompson, Dira Titus, Paul D. Tonko, Timothy J. Waltz.

RADVETS SALUTES YOU

Now it is up to a new Congress!

Atomic Vets and survivors please send your atomic stories, your physical condition and your frustrations to

RVA President Richard Ellett

18089 Clearwater Road

   

CONGRESS - ARE YOU LISTENING AND HEARING? IF NOT YOU SHOULD BE!!!

THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION CANNOT COMPENSATE ATOMIC VETERANS WITH MANY RECOGNIZED DISEASES UNLESS CONGRESS ACTS.

IF THERE IS NO ACTION AT THIS TIME THEN BOTH CONGRESS AND THE ADMINISTRATION ARE INDICATING THEY HAVE NO CONCERN FOR A CLASS OF VIRTUALLY FORGOTTEN VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

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The United States and other governments have, in the course of developing and deploying Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), poisoned (leading to illness and death) thousands of citizens, particularly military personnel exposed to radiation, poison chemicals and biological agents. This poisoning, while  no one charges was on purpose, nevertheless has led to great human suffering ...  and the coverups, obfuscation, or misinterpretation, of results of the events appear to have been on purpose in too many cases. 

National Security is one thing ... but twisting security needs to hide or misrepresent facts, or simply refusing to acknowledge mistakes ... in order to avoid liabilities to individuals, government agencies, corporations, and educational institutions that have taken in hundreds of billions of dollars... is something else. With few exceptions this misrepresentation and avoidance has been prejudicial to loyal military personnel and their families.

Radiated Veterans of America, Inc. (RVA) is a Nevada non-profit corporation approved by the United States Internal Revenue Service as a Section 501 (c) (19) Veterans Service Organization on a primary mission to aid, by public education and endorsing legislation, those past, current and future members of the Armed Forces of the United States of America who, beginning with the Manhattan Project in 1945, were or will be exposed to ionizing radiation, from weapons tests, storage, accidents and deployment.

This includes non-weapons use of nuclear energy for medical, propulsion and experimental purposes.

RVA members include Veterans exposed to Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons and armaments resulting from the Gulf, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq Wars.

RVA also works closely with Veterans exposed to Agent Orange, or who took part in the SHAD (Project 112) chemical and biological experiments and deployments, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Atomic, Biological and Chemical (ABC) weapons programs were, and are, conducted under top-secret conditions. While RVA respects the need for national security, we do not believe it is just that individuals are denied adequate medical care, compensation, or recognition because of security clearences, or classifications, when such can be accomplished without compromising security.

RVA's main goal is to positively influence the Administration and Congress of the United States of America that bear final responsibility for bringing justice to American military Veterans, their families and survivors.

There is no threshold for safe exposure to ionizing radiation