What were the effects of the heavy atmospheric nuclear testing done in the 40s, 50s and 60s on life on earth? The Tsar Bomba alone had to create some seriously irreversible fallout damage for most of the planet, right?
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Not really a lot. Almost all damage is reversed pretty easily by nature. There is a market for pre-nuclear steel, as almost all steel produced since the nuclear era has above baseline concentration of radioactive isotopes. If you’re building shielding for an exotic scientific instrument measuring radiation, you’ll pay extra for old steel without these traces.
As far as the rest of the world, it’s all in the past. Some permanent damage was done to some Pacific atolls, but that was physical damage – not fallout damage.
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