THINGS YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS

A CT BODY SCAN EXPOSES PATIENTS TO THE SAME

AMOUNT OF RADIATION AS STANDING WITHIN

1.5 MILES OF THE BLAST AT HIROSHIMA

IN NEW MEXICO THERE IS AN ATOMIC BOMB MUSEUM

WHERE THE FIRST NUCLEAR BOMBS WERE DETONATED.

IT IS OPEN ONLY 12 HOURS PER YEAR (IF YOU LOOK

IT UP IT IS CALLED TRINITY SITE, NOT THE NATIONAL

MUSEUM OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND HISTORY)

NEUTRON BOMBS ARE ATOMIC BOMBS THAT ARE

DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY TO NOT CREATE A

LARGE BLAST. INSTEAD, THEY JUST SPEW OUT A

TON OF RADIATION

TSAR BOMB, THE LARGEST NUCLEAR BOMB EVER

DETONATED WAS SO BIG THAT IT CREATED

SEISMIC WAVES MEASURABLE EVEN ON THEIR

THIRD PASSAGE AROUND THE WORLD

UNDER NATO WEAPONS SHARING, AMERICAN NUCLEAR

WARHEADS ARE KEPT IN BELGIUM, GERMANY,

ITALY, NETHERLANDS, AND TURKEY

ONE WAY OF TESTING FOR ART FORGERIES IS TO

DETECT CESIUM-137 AND STRONTIUM-90. THESE

ISOTOPES DID NOT EXIST IN NATURE BEFORE THE

FIRST USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN 1945

IN 1961 THE US AIR FORCE ACCIDENTALLY DROPPED

2 NUCLEAR BOMBS OVER NORTH CAROLINA BUT

AMAZINGLY NEITHER OF THEM EXPLODED

KNOWN AS THE VELA INCIDENT, OUT OF MORE THAN

2,000 NUCLEAR TESTS ONLY 1 HAS HAD AN

UNKNOWN NATIONALITY. IT WAS A 3 KILOTON BOMB

DETONATED IN THE INDIAN OCEAN IN 1979