The amount of fallout that landed on Nagasaki in 1945 was 1/1,000,000,000,000 of the amount of fallout that landed on the Earth from global nuclear testing. 

( * Amount of fallout that fell on Nagasaki on Aug. 9 1945 was 15-40 grams, from above-ground nuclear testing was 45 trillion grams; during Cold War atmospheric nuclear testing.  0.25% of Nagasaki fallout fell locally or 0.015 kgs; global testing fallout (fission) products amounted to about 45.7 billion kgs (110 lb/mt).)  More


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U.S. NUCLEAR tests: 128 A + 899 U in NV,
1
A in NM, 10 U (in NM, CO, AK, MS, central NV),
100+
A, U in Pacific, 3 A in S. Atlantic
(A=aboveground; U=Underground)

'The greatest irony of our atmospheric nuclear testing program
is that the only victims of U.S. nuclear arms since World War II have been our own people.' - Forgotten Guinea Pigs Report, 1980

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