Seems to me you’d still have radiation from the bomb regardless of where it was set off. Isn’t sea life endangered with underwater nuclear tests? How is the radiation kept from coming up into the atmosphere with either underground or underwater nuclear tests.
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Nuclear weapons produce a ton of radiation, yes, but it’s not like a single blast is going to poison the whole world.
So the shortest answer is, the radiation from underwater and underground tests is pretty nasty, but it was done in remote places that people shouldn’t go to. Those areas would still have radiation levels considered unhealthy to be exposed to, but it’s not they are so unimaginably radioactive that they can poison the whole world.
Yes, sea life in endangered, but the Venn Diagram of people who conduct nuclear testing and the people who are concerned about hurting Clown Fish are two distinct circles.
Yes, radiation is capable of escaping from the sites and into the atmosphere but in the grand scheme of things it’s just not potent enough to be worried about, just don’t travel to those sites.
Finally, environmental protection is on the list of reasons why nuclear weapons testing is banned by most counties. (the bigger reason being those of us that could already did and don’t need to anymore, and we don’t want anyone else getting them).
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