Ed Helms
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You know what I mean?
Getting hit with this thing.
It's just crazy.
Obviously, this wasn't just a local issue over a particular spot in the Pacific Ocean.
It affected the entire near-Earth environment.
The artificial radiation belt slowly faded, but the lesson lingered.
Detonating nuclear weapons in space had consequences we didn't understand at the time.
Nations around the world, especially the Soviet Union, were watching, of course.
Russian radio called the test a crime perpetrated by, quote, American atom maniacs.
I love that term.
Sounds like animaniacs.
Yeah, the atom maniacs.
The atom maniacs, which I think we kind of live up to that.
We're atom maniacs.
I was going to say they're not.
Wrong.
No, they're not.
Either of those counts.
Yeah.
But even taking all of this into consideration, the test was considered a success.