I was recently reading old family letters, including one from my aunt who was living in Reno when the atomic testing was taking place. She reported that after tests, for several days she and others would feel a little sick. I wonder how much radiation they were getting that the government never acknowledged or even bothered to test for?
The ban on atmospheric nuke testing was a good idea. President Eisenhower declared a unilateral US ban in 1958. The USSR announced it would follow that lead, but resumed testing in 1961; the Chinese didn’t even bombs to test before then, and did atmospheric tests. The last atmospheric test, I believe, were French, when the dolt then in charge resumed testing in the S Pacific, perhaps it was as late as the 1990s.
Of course, other makes and models of computer can just suck on this:
> In a test called “Apple II,” fired on 5 May 1955, the entire foundation shifted from the force of the 29-kiloton blast. The house has been partially restored to document the historical importance of the above-ground testing period.
http://onlinenevada.org/articles/atmospheric-nuclear-testing-nevada-test-site
BTW, according to John Dvorak, the test was called “Apple II,” because mannikins were placed in sexual positions before the test, just to see how a-bombs impacted various human activities.