Why does carbon dating work?

I mean, there are reasonable objections that have been proposed.

Nuclear testing changed the ratio of carbon 12 to carbon 14.

Carbon has come and gone in and out of the carbon cycle for as long as the planet has existed.

And who's to say the rate of carbon decay has always been a constant?

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