 Did you know, starting in the 1950s, Atoms for Peace started looking for ways to make use of radiation. One project was irradiating plants to see the long term effects. This eventually changed into creating mutations that might create beneficial traits in plants. Some desired characteristics included increased resilience to adverse weather and faster growth. Typically, a good friend of the channel, Cobalt 60, would be used for its gamma radiation. The project, which had been embraced in many countries, resulted in over 2,000 new varieties of plants, many of which are used in modern day agriculture. But as nuclear fears gripped the public, I mean just look at all the nuclear tests that happened, the practice fell out of favour by the late 1960s.