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How many deaths have been linked to radiation from the nuclear tests?
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∙ 12y ago
Unfortunately that is very uncertain. Fallout from US Nevada tests alone reached everyone of the "lower 48" states and parts of Canada and Mexico. Statistics on actual radiation levels deposited are spotty. Also how do you count properly deaths caused decades later by latent injury, stillbirths, and birth defects that are eventually fatal. Fallout from the US big pacific tests and USSR big Siberian and arctic tests distributed itself around the globe multiple times. No statistics were even collected on these tests.
In other words, we just don't know.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoImpossible to get an accurate answer as deaths were mostly delayed effects that took 10 to 40 years to manifest symptoms. Also no dosimetry was done except on site (and even that was spotty) so exposures were unknown.
One person known to have died due to nuclear testing was John Wayne, his movie "The Conqueror" was shot shortly after one of the Nevada series in a known contaminated zone outside the test range then RKO pictures has several tons of contaminated dirt trucked from the site to use in sound stages for reshooting selected scenes. Of course his heavy smoking contributed too.
Except for a criticality accident in early 1946 before the Crossroads Pacific series, there were no immediate deaths in the US testing program. Other programs may have had different results.
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∙ 11y agoThe first or the two nuclear bombs dropped in World War Two, killed 90,000-166,000 people in Hiroshima.
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∙ 12y agoover 200,000 people
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∙ 12y agoOver 200,000 people.
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