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by defrost
431 days ago
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No need, the United States of America already has more surface and underground nuclear test locations than any other nation on earth (IIRC), even more if atmospheric tests are included as those drifted fallout onto US ground surface. There have been 2,121 tests done since the first in July 1945, involving 2,476 nuclear devices
~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_testsOf these, one thousand and thirty two have been US tests (not all within the mainland contiguous USofA). Air imagery of Yucca Flat looks like a bad case of acne, it's riddled with pockmark craters from underground nuclear tests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Flat has been called "the most irradiated, nuclear-blasted spot on the face of the earth".
In March 2009, TIME identified the 1970 Yucca Flat Baneberry Test, where 86 workers were exposed to radiation, as one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.
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