Eli5: what happens to the areas where nuclear bombs are tested?
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Thanks to Oppenheimer, a lot of indigenous, non white minorities living in nuclear testing areas such as New Mexico, Nevada etc are coming forward to explain how they were displaced, told lies about the effect of radiation. While the movie explains the story of the origins, it does not explain the real thousands of tragedies that happened.
Depending on the program, people were displaced or left in a dangerously close area. Bombs were tried after a very light explanation like the ones in this [propaganda clip](https://youtu.be/Q3zHLYuIfoQ)
(The Reason I say it’s propaganda is because the inhabitants of Bikini were already told the program was going to take place and were asked to stage the scenes so it could be aired in the US, like the US government was doing its due diligence/show the world it was going farther than anyone else in war technologies).
To this day Atoll [Bikini](https://youtu.be/Q3zHLYuIfoQ) cannot be inhabited and the people suffered terrible consequences of H bomb being tested on their land.
It’s an awful can of worms. Depending on the country that carried the tests, different places were affected. Northern Africa, Australia, Oceania, Oural and central Asia.
Just follow the ethnic minorities of a country that developed nuclear weapons during the Cold War and you’ll find suffering.
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