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They were also really lax with the safety of the Pacific island natives where they tested their later bigger stuff :( At Los Alamos it doesn't even feel as bad
by wkat4242 2y ago
They were also really lax with the safety of the Pacific island natives where they tested their later bigger stuff :(
At Los Alamos it doesn't even feel as bad because they didn't fully know how bad it was, it was in the middle of a world war and it was their own territory they were polluting.
- defrost 2y agoThe bulk of the spillage didn't originate "in the middle of a world war" though: Until 1963, the Los Alamos national laboratory spit radioactive waste into a nearby canyon as the Department of Defense developed the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The area became so saturated in toxic waste that it was dubbed Acid Canyon. Three bombs and a few partials were produced during WWII, in 1950 there was barely 200 or so in the US, by early 1960 the number was in the thousands, possibly low tens of thousands.
- wkat4242 2y agoGood point. I made an incorrect assumption there.