Mary Dickson
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Award-winning writer/playwright Mary Dickson is an American downwinder and thyroid cancer survivor who is an internationally recognized advocate for radiation exposed individuals who have suffered due to harms they endured from nuclear weapons testing in the U.S. She grew up in Salt Lake City, and for many decades did not connect her family and communities’ health impacts to nuclear weapons tests, having been told by the government that “there was no danger.” In the 1980’s she was a volunteer editor of The Desert Sun, Utah’s Peace News, while working for a local PBS station. She began intervi...
