And to this day nothing can live there. Not even weeds will grow among the glowing radioactive rubble.
We nuked the bloody hell out of Frenchman Flat, back in the day. Now it’s a barren desert suitable only for chemical spill testing.
Before that, it was ...
Oh, yeah ...
A barren desert.
***And to this day nothing can live there.***
I remember reading about scientists at that time saying nothing would grow there for 96 years due to radioactivity! Yet the next year the flowers grew and trees sent up new shoots from their roots.
During the first A-bomb test in New Mexico, a herd of cattle were caught in the fallout from it. It was believed the cattle would be sterile from then on. One cow, “Old Granny” was taken to Oak Ridge and lived another 20 years dropping perfectly normal calves. She did have radioactive burns but survived them. I believe it was 19 calves she dropped. I read about it in Progressive Farmer over sixty years ago and still have that page from the magazine.
LOL. The lurking idiot democrats might believe you.