Comment by ourmandave
4 days ago
At least LA wasn't down wind. Veritasium did an eye opening vid on how fallout blew across the country and was ruining Kodak's film on the East Coast.
And they stayed quiet it about it.
How Kodak Exposed Nuclear Testing
The Sedan test [1], part of Project Plowshare, was an underground test in Nevada that sent fallout across a large swath of the U.S. Midwaste, sorry, Midwest.
The wife's family lived in Omaha, Nebraska at the time. A lot of cancer in her family. But then a lot of smokers as well. So who knows.
Regardless, that one was a major fuck-up that seems to have kind of put the kibosh on "underground" testing of that sort.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_(nuclear_test)
ffs, the crater is a tourist attraction now.