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How Did Hazardous Nuclear Testing Help Science?

How Did Hazardous Nuclear Testing Help Science?

BrainStuff

April 27, 20238m 46s

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Aboveground nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and '60s has exposed every living thing on Earth to harmful radiation -- but has also made dating the remains of living things much more accurate. Learn more in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-tests-bomb-pulse.htm

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historyarchaeologyradioactivitycarboncarbon-14C14