Do you think American nuclear tests and news reels from the era were propaganda free? This was an active natural gas well and drilling area. No one was living

Do you think American nuclear tests and news reels from the era were propaganda free? This was an active natural gas well and drilling area. No one was living near it--it would have been a nightmare of potential deadly gas exposure to do so, even ignoring the nuclear blast. The blast was 1000+ meters underground so no cloud or fallout was thrown into the air. The really dangerous radioisotopes from most bombs have a half life less than a decade so everything underground is likely pretty benign now. But again, no one is going to be digging a hole 1000 meters down into a former natural gas well to go live there.