Dust: how the pursuit of power and profit has turned the world to powder
▻https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02734-y
Radioactive fallout tops the list of environmental misdeeds. US atomic bombs killed some 200,000 people in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the Second World War, but a much more devastating legacy came from the nuclear-weapons testing that followed. The United States, Soviet Union and other nations detonated more than 500 nuclear bombs in the atmosphere during the 1950s and 1960s, setting radioactive particles adrift until such tests were prohibited under the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, a federation of medical professionals based in Boston, Massachusetts, has estimated that 2.4 million people died or will die from the effects of this radioactive dust.
