America dropped 2 bombs on Japan and 1,021 on Nevada. I guess it isn't surprising that St. George, Utah has more background radiation and unburned Plutonium than ground zero of both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. All I can say is "WTF?" Is anyone with me on this?
@IsaacSloan Of course there was more fallout products in Utah - there were dozens of airbursts over the Nevada test site as compared to the two bombs dropped on Japan. Fallout has to go somewhere and apparently the Mormons got the bulk of it. Government statistics from the Cancer Institute show an additional 138,000 cases of thyroid cancer as a direct result of the above ground nuclear tests. Just one reason they went underground. Deaths aside, I still miss the above ground tests.
8:45 looks clean but that was "Harry", the test that produced the most fallout of any continental test (according to wikipedia), and later irradiated the citizens of St George, Utah, 135 miles downwind.
America dropped 2 bombs on Japan and 1,021 on Nevada. I guess it isn't surprising that St. George, Utah has more background radiation and unburned Plutonium than ground zero of both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. All I can say is "WTF?" Is anyone with me on this?
IsaacSloan 1 year ago
@IsaacSloan Of course there was more fallout products in Utah - there were dozens of airbursts over the Nevada test site as compared to the two bombs dropped on Japan. Fallout has to go somewhere and apparently the Mormons got the bulk of it. Government statistics from the Cancer Institute show an additional 138,000 cases of thyroid cancer as a direct result of the above ground nuclear tests. Just one reason they went underground. Deaths aside, I still miss the above ground tests.
wwwunitednuclear 1 year ago
@IsaacSloan I'm with ya
syedsaim 8 months ago
atom and evil
sprimusp 1 year ago
Great Footage,thanks for making this important detailed piece of history available to everyone!
samalayork 2 years ago
8:45 looks clean but that was "Harry", the test that produced the most fallout of any continental test (according to wikipedia), and later irradiated the citizens of St George, Utah, 135 miles downwind.
tachikaze222 2 years ago
@tachikaze222 Dirty Harry
orange70383 1 month ago
'shot 10' they are talking about was probably the Grable, 15kt with a maximized airbust height. A lot was learned in that one. Amazing footage.
Monty22001 3 years ago 2