What effect have the atomic tests that were carried out in the 1960s had on the environment?

What effect have the atomic tests that were carried out in the 1960s had on the environment?
13 March 2005

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What effect have the atomic tests that were carried out in the 1960s had on the environment?

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They probably didn't have a great direct effect on our climate. Such explosions are actually small in comparison to something such as a volcanic eruption, which releases so much debris that they end in global cooling rather than global warming. What the explosions have done is provided a radioactive marker in the land and in plants.

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