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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'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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