69 Years

[Мастер]

It's already August 7 here, but for some of you, this happened 69 years ago today.

[Lance]

Happy Hiroshima Day everyone!

Hope you all have a blast!

[tubeswell]

The second of many 20th century atmospheric nuclear fission detonations.

[Мастер]

I found something which gave a number slightly over 2,000, but I think that included underground as well.

[tubeswell]

Local scientists have done a study of sedimentation in the nearby Porirua Harbour using stratigraphical deposits of Caesium 137 from one of the 1950s Bikini Atoll atmospheric tests* as a strata marker to date sediment build-up in the harbour estuary.

* Might've been this one

Kind of brings it all into the present really.

[Heid the Ba]

And now I have the OMD song "Enola Gay" stuck in my head.

[Enzo]

And the subset of people who fled the destruction in Hiroshima, to go stay with friends or family in...Nagasaki.

[Lianachan]

Tsutomu Yamaguchi had more experience than most of what it's like to be around a nuclear bomb going off. Nice example of the BBC being dicks there, too.

[Мастер]

Tsutomu Yamaguchi had more experience than most of what it's like to be around a nuclear bomb going off. Nice example of the BBC being dicks there, too.

How odd, I just read about this chap the other day.

[Lianachan]

I only heard about him when he died - he sprang to mind when I re-read this thread (although I did have to Google his name).

[Arneb]

I found something which gave a number slightly over 2,000, but I think that included underground as well.

Yes, 2053, excludign the somewhat dubious North Korean test. Here is a timeline, watching it gives you quite the eerie feeling.

The most nuked site in the world, according to this film's cumulative imaging at the end, is still New Mexico

[Enzo]

Well, that ought to explain something, but I am not sure just what...

[Мастер]

Yes, 2053, excludign the somewhat dubious North Korean test. Here is a timeline, watching it gives you quite the eerie feeling.

Holy crap, the US more than everyone else put together.

There have been two NK tests, with some detection of radiation by other countries.

It doesn't seem to include the Vela incident. There may well be others we don't know about.

I was wondering how the Soviet/Russia transition would be handled, it just remained Soviet.

The most nuked site in the world, according to this film's cumulative imaging at the end, is still New Mexico

Well, that ought to explain something, but I am not sure just what...

Buttercup?

[Arneb]

Well, that ought to explain something, but I am not sure just what...

Buttercup?

You're definitely on to something. Although I thought she was Texan.

[Мастер]

Well, that ought to explain something, but I am not sure just what...

Buttercup?

You're definitely on to something. Although I thought she was Texan.

Ah well, maybe.

[Heid the Ba]

Tsutomu Yamaguchi had more experience than most of what it's like to be around a nuclear bomb going off. Nice example of the BBC being dicks there, too.

I find a lot of QI unwatchable as they don't really fact check history (but it was on the internet!) or push obscure theories as the truth.

[Lianachan]

Yes, plus Stephen Fry has a face that's made for punching.