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Hello, everybody.

Welcome back to another episode of Decoding the Unknown.

Today, Katie has written me, Project Sunshine, the Radiation Experiments, the U.S.

tried to hide. Why would you want to hide radiation experiments? That can only be good for you, right? No, obviously not. Let's jump into it. The former other show if you knew here. I've never read this before. Like I said, Katie wrote it for me. We're going to read it together, dear audience. Let us jump in.

On the 16th of July, 1945, the United States Army detonated the first nuclear bomb, a test weapon named Trinity. This flung the world into the atomic age, where the subsequent bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,

were just the start of the nuclear weapons program.

Because of rising tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States and the increasing possibility of atomic warfare,

the US ramped up its nuclear weapons testing, carrying out most of it in a designated area of Nevada.

What's that TV show where there's people in Las Vegas and they're

what, or a movie maybe? Is that one about Howard Hughes, the Aviator? Where they're like

watching the bombs go off in the desert from Las Vegas? Pretty cool, but also pretty, I mean,

yeah, it'd be cool to see a nuclear bomb go off, wouldn't it, to be honest? Between 1945 and 1992, I mean not like on people, I mean in the desert, like out there,

where no one's really getting hurt, other than the environment.

And fuck the environment.

Between 1945 and 1992, the United States recorded 154 explosive nuclear tests, with 928 of these

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