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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Atomic Scar

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The creation of atomic weaponry changed human civilization forever, but it also left its mark on the Earth itself -- in both obvious and subtle ways. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss some of the ways in which the world would not be the same.

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0:00.0

I'm Amber Reffett and I'm her gorgeous sister, Lacey Lamar.

0:03.2

If in fact Lacey is not that gorgeous.

0:05.2

Amber, get on with it.

0:06.2

Okay everybody, we have exciting news to share.

0:08.4

We're teaming up with Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network to bring you our

0:11.8

brand new podcast called The Amber and Lacey Lacey and Amber Show.

0:15.0

We did it.

0:16.0

We sold a bunch of books, we conquered late night and now we'll play fun quizzes and games

0:19.8

with friends and take you along for the ride.

0:22.4

Listen to the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber Show on Will Ferrell's Big Money

0:26.1

Players Network on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:34.3

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

0:37.9

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lamar.

0:47.6

And I'm Joan Morn, again today we're going to be talking about nuclear weapons testing.

0:52.6

Now this is something that has come up on the show a good bit before.

0:55.9

Obviously we've had to talk many times about the very real danger potential civilization

1:03.0

level threat and the real human costs of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons testing.

1:09.2

But today I wanted to focus on a couple of interesting and lesser known environmental effects

1:15.0

of nuclear weapons testing.

1:17.3

Specifically something that I came across as it pertains to industrial metals and then

1:22.7

we're going to get into some other scientific territory as we go on.

1:26.7

But quite apart from any straightforward chemical effects on the atmosphere, I think it is

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