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Scientists were testing nuclear weapons in '54, then something went very wrong

Back in the 1950s the US was testing a lot of nuclear weapons, but one test in particular gained infamy for just how wrong everything went with it.
Indiatimes

In the 1950s, US nuclear tests at Bikini and Enewetak left carbon-14 traces in Guam coral, revealing how nuclear fallout travelled across the Pacific

In the warm waters around Guam, a coral reef quietly recorded a series of events taking place thousands of kilometres away. During the 1950s, the United States carried out powerful thermonuclear tests ...
Rolling Stone

The Devastating Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Tests

MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Lemeyo Abon learned about snow from the movies played on projectors by visiting American sailors. But living on Rongelap — a remote tropical atoll in the central Pacific ...
Discover Magazine

The Totskoye Nuclear Exercise Exposed Soldiers to Radiation to Prepare for a Potential Third World War

Learn why thousands of soldiers were deliberately exposed to radiation from a nuclear bomb in the Soviet Union, and why other nations did the same. The Totskoye Nuclear Exercise occurred in September ...