US radiation fallout from nuclear tests in Nevada
US radiation fallout from nuclear tests in Nevada
Fallout Map — Areas of the continental United States crossed by more than one nuclear cloud during the atmospheric atomic tests.
The atomic blasts of the 1950s and 1960s illuminated the Southwestern deserts, shattering windows in Las Vegas and hurled billowing clouds of radioactive dust.For many years these clouds drifted across America poisoning animals and people in Utah and searing the boot soles of troops on maneuvers just yards from ground zero being used as “Atomic Guinea Pigs.”
The atomic blasts of the 1950s and 1960s illuminated the Southwestern deserts, shattering windows in Las Vegas and hurled billowing clouds of radioactive dust.For many years these clouds drifted across America poisoning animals and people in Utah and searing the boot soles of troops on maneuvers just yards from ground zero being used as “Atomic Guinea Pigs.”
