Today in my Peace History posting is a timely item from 1980 when a federal judge in Salt Lake City, Utah, found the U.S. government negligent for its above-ground testing of nuclear weapons in Nevada from 1951 to 1962.
The land of the Nevada Test Site is scarred with craters from nuclear testing
Fallout Maps from Nuclear Testing:
Falloutfrom a large nuclear exchange would potentially blanket a country—perhaps even the whole world—with radioactive fission products.
Links to sites with information on the effects of nuclear testing and blasts on our earth and its life:
More images:
A 23 kiloton tower shot called BADGER, fired on April 18, 1953 at the Nevada Test Site, as part of the Operation Upshot-Knothole nuclear test series.
Moth test atOperaton Teapot
Fizeau atOperation Plumbbob
Santa Fe at peration Hardtack II
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 