• StrayCatFrump@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago

    As for environment, the US nuked themselves over a thousand times, mostly on the Nevada desert. People in the 1950s used to go to Las Vegas to watch the explosions, nowadays they still go for the casinos, and that’s after many of the old dirtier bombs got exploded above ground…

    The US honed that skill by turning nukes into a tourist attraction for its own citizens over 60 years ago.

    Here you go, you revisionist, gaslighting piece of shit:

    The partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

    The fallout from atmospheric tests created a global health crisis. A 1961 study revealed that strontium-90, a radioactive isotope, was building up in the teeth of children living in the St. Louis, Missouri area, hundreds of miles away from the nearest nuclear test site in the Nevada desert. Efforts by thousands of scientists and the international public raised the alarm about contamination from atmospheric nuclear tests and urged global leaders to act.

    By 1963, the international community had negotiated the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibits carrying out nuclear tests in any environment that would allow radioactive material to spread across a country’s borders, including atmospheric tests, underwater tests, and tests in outer space.

    The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty dramatically reduced and eventually ended atmospheric nuclear testing. But nuclear testing did not slow down. Instead, countries with nuclear weapons shifted to underground test sites.

    Just because a particular city nearby didn’t suffer the effects of fallout doesn’t mean it was under control and didn’t have horrific effects on people literally hundreds of miles away. You are literally just spewing “clean nukes” propaganda straight out of the playbook of the U.S. arms industry. Go fuck yourself.

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
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      11 months ago

      over 60 years ago.

      By 1963

      It’s 2023, let’s see: 1963+60=?

      you revisionist, gaslighting piece of shit

      Go fuck yourself.

      Ok.