In 1957, the United States embarked on its most controversial series of nuclear tests.

These took place on U.S. soil in the state of Nevada.

They detonated 29 devices and tested a wide number of things including how blasts would damage

buildings, pigs and soldiers. They detonated bombs on towers from balloons and

even underground. And according to legend they may have even accidentally launched the first man-made object into space.

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What made Operation Plumbob so controversial was where the test took place and how they took place.

Prior to the 1950s, most of America's nuclear tests took place on remote atolls in the

Pacific.

They were far away from population centers, and they were mostly about testing the workings of the

bombs themselves.

Please refer to my episode on the testing they did at

bikini atoll. While there were obvious benefits to testing in a remote area in the

ocean there were a lot of drawbacks as well. Not to mention that doing

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