Just like the title says, I don’t understand how they can test nuclear bombs in the desert, or Bikini Atoll (in the ocean) without permanently irradiating the ecosystem (and consequently, Earth) beyond repair.
They’ve tested dozens and dozens of nuclear bombs throughout the years, and I’m confused why that hasn’t messed our world up?
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Radiation from nuclear weapons will only last a few years at most while the radiation from a nuclear power plant disaster will last for thousands of year. Hiroshima is a habitable and prosperous city today.
There is a nuclear test ban treaty. I think North Korea is the only nuclear power that has not signed it. The rest do not test nuclear weapons. The US Department of Energy uses super computers to simulate nuclear explosions. I do not understand the details. If you go top500.org to look at the top 500 supercomputers, there is usually at least 1 in the top 10 from the Department of Energy.
For anyone wondering: where, how many and who?
The earth is large, like very impossible to put in scale large, and in spite of their immense power, nuclear weapons still rather small. There’s enough remote places to test nuclear weapons in forever and there are several other very natural phenomena which release much more energy and carnage than a nuclear weapon.
Tbh, they often test nukes in rather remote wastelands so the only organisms complaining are probably like the three bacteria who live there.
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Bikini Atoll is screwed forever and is currently leeching radiation into the environment. It’s only local indigenous people though so nobody cares and everyone has washed their hands of the problem.
The fear of nuclear winter and the world ending is not because the bombs are nuclear. It is because they are powerful bombs and the idea is the major cities and gas plants and refineries will be on fire and the smoke will black out the Sun. That or the wide spread destruction just damages too much crops and infrastructure.
Look at Japan, they live in the cities still and they’re fine. The places they tested are very very very small in comparison to the world. They are fucked still though. Same with where they put all the waste from the bombs.
Well (shuffles uncomfortably) we really (wipes sweat from forehead) WE DONT (begins to sob uncontrollably).
We are digging holes and etching warnings in stone for future generations, you know in case we all die and forget. There are vast subterranean wastelands, whole swathes of uninhabitable land that is a testament to our failure.
Sometimes they just nuke the fuck out of the place and then Green Peace reluctantly moves the people later so they don’t die of radiation exposure. Look into bikini atoll and specifically Rongelap/The Exodus project
They tested in the desert anyway and then considerstely monitored the residents’ health for free as long as they lived. It was probably all part of the test.
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