Ivana Hughes

The U.S., I mentioned the testing in the Marshall Islands.

We also tested in another Pacific island state called Republic of Kiribati.

And we tested on our own soil, both in Nevada, where there were 100 atmospheric tests done,

and some 828 underground tests, as well as in Alaska where there were just underground tests.

But the testing in Nevada actually produced fallout that went all around the United States.

And it quite simply depended on whether or not

there was rain in locals.

So the fallout was carried towards the east, given the easterly winds.

And then if there was a rain, a weather event in some place, the fallout would get deposited there.

And there are maps of the United States that quite simply look like you sort of gave an empty map to a child and they played with paint and kind of

you know, sprayed, you know, blotches of paint onto different parts.

A Jackson Pollock painting, yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

And it's where radiation had been deposited from these- Do we know the health effects of that?

The health effects are very severe and very serious.

So let me just name a few of the top radioactive isotopes that are problematic.

There's something called iodine-131.

There's something called cesium-137, something called strontium-90, and there are a number of different isotopes of plutonium.

And the thing about these is that they quite simply last in the environment for different amounts of time.

So some of them, there's a concept called half-life.