This nuclear bam work off in 1946 at Bikini Atoll in Micronesia . How did some of the radiation get back to the United States ? Why , we imported it , of course !
Has the radiation from atomic testing abroad descend back to haunt the United State via ocean currents and wind patterns ? Probably . But we found a more direct way of get it back home . If you await at the picture above , you ’ll notice that there are a lot of boats grouped around the central cylinder of the blast . That close , they are tucked under the cloud .
Although it resemble a mushroom-shaped cloud cloud , the straggle cloud in the picture is n’t triggered by the same forces . It ’s actually the result of ionizing radiation sickness moving through the atm . The radiation syndrome ionise the speck in the atmosphere , which then draw particles of water and stimulate large amounts of condensing – an factual cloud . The cloud and the radiation syndrome then rain down on the ship . ( They are also expose to direct radiation . )
Some of those ships were so undamaged that it was think they could be saved . They were guide back to America – where they dock in Hunter ’s Point , San Francisco . Many of them , it turn out , could not be saved . They were irretrievably pollute , among them the USS Independence . Although some reports say that the ships were dumped hundreds of miles from the sea-coast , some local say they could see the ships being drop down from shore .
ViaThe Devil ’s TeethandBulletin of the Atomic Scientists .
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