Ever wonder how many nuclear bombs have been set off? Think it is only a few? A few 100's, maybe?

[A HERETIC I AM]

Here is as comprehensive a list as you will likely find and this lists only known tests/explosions.

It appears there have been over 2,100 nuclear explosions, both above ground and underground since 1945.

http://www.nuclearweaponarchive.org/Library/Catalog

I knew it was a lot, but i had no idea there have been over 2000 such explosions.

Amazing.

[Swamp Rat]

1. and more to come

[Snarkoleptic]

5. Nice 'neckfurter' in that picture.

Hey Dick...how 'bout a nice greasy pork sandwich for lunch?

[TheMightyFavog]

2. All you need to do is fire up Google Earth...

And zoom in on the Tonopah Test Range out in Nevada. You can see all the craters from when they did the testing back during the Cold War.

IIRC, one of those craters was part of a "peaceful use" experiment where they thought a nuke would be just the thing to use to create large manmade lakes. This was, of course back before they knew all about the dangers of radiation.

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. Yup. Done that. I was looking at Bikini Atoll earlier...

using Wikimapia. Some knowledgeable person has outlined many of the craters left from the tests or "shots", as they were referred to, that were conducted there. The same is the case for the NTS.

The tests that were supposedly for peaceful purpose were the "Plowshares" tests of which the "Sedan" test made a rather large crater.

[Kipper58]

11. Do you think that's how they made the craters for the fake moon landing photos?

:hide: :sarcasm: :evilgrin: :hi: :evilgrin: :hi: :evilgrin: :sarcasm: :hide:

[Bobbieo]

7. Some knew the dangers of radiation poisoning.- they chose not to

talk about them - as a result, thousands of people have ended up with cancers all across the path of the westerly winds.

http://nativeunity.blogspot.com

[scubadude]

3. The scariest ones to me are the high altitude shots.

There were quite a few too, up in the 20 to 100 mile high region. Each shedding atomic radiation over the entire planet.

They say the do it to protect us.... Yeah, spread radiation over the entire planet to protect us.

On edit here's a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_altitude_nuclear_explosion

Scuba

[TahitiNut]

8. I gotta wonder what effect they might've had on the ozone layer.

:crazy:

[gateley]

6. The moment I clicked on your thread I thought "uhhh, I don't think I really

want to know." That's alarming. I can't even think of how it's affected our world and us.

[Hissyspit]

9. This adds more info and puts it into perspective: U.S. Atomic History Animation

http://www.animatedsoftware.com/poifu/poifu.swf

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. Interesting.

Thanks for posting that. Sheesh, they really spit out those Submarines out of Connecticut, didnt they?

[MadHound]

12. And all that fallout drifted west to east, settled onto the ground,

Got into our soil, the plants, the animals and us. There was a big scare in the late eighties about radioactive milk in Wisconsin. The fallout from bomb tests had settled into the ground, was taken up by plants, which were eaten by cattle. Not much ever came of it, so I suppose it is still going on. Probably one of the reasons cancer rates have risen. Hell, my chemistry teacher in Missouri used to go out the morning after a nuke tests during the fifties and take a swipe off his car, bring it into class and watch the geiger counter go nuts.

Yep, theres a nice little radioactive layer in the ground beneath our feet. Yipee!

[hedgehog]

13. During the 50's, Eastman Kodak in Rochester New York had a

problem because all the film they were making and shipping fogged from the background radiation. Students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute near Albany accidentally discovered that particles washed down by a rainstorm had lodged in the bricks on a lot of buildings to the point that it was dangerous.

On edit: this has nothing to do with the increased number of kids with ADHD or autism, of course.