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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
I looked again at your list and see the numeral at the end of each line. I missed that the first time I looked at the list and assumed it was one test for each line. So now I conclude that that means there were that many explosions at that location in that year. Does it tell how big they were and so forth?
These facts are apparently germaine to the discussion but I am no expert on the various ways nuclear warheads can be tested.
I only know what was reported in the book and what was discussed about the ramifications of the actions of the US in Afganistan.
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Here's where I copied and pasted the table from, for no particular reason other than they had presented it in a simple table form. My formatting was quick and dirty, sorry about that. There are many websites that have archived this information, and in many cases you can follow links back official gov't documents if you're a proper skeptic.
Gallery of U.S. Nuclear Tests
Click on one of the links such as
Operation Plumbbob and you'll see details of the test including the time and date of each bomb detonation, and photographs, and charts or other data if available; as an example:
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Plumbbob released some 58,300 kilocuries of radioiodine (I-131) into the atmosphere. This was more than twice as much as any other continental test series. This produced total civilian radiation exposures amounting to 120 million person-rads of thyroid tissue exposure (about 32% of all exposure due to continental nuclear tests). This can be expected to eventually cause about 38,000 cases of thyroid cancer, leading to some 1900 deaths.
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