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Scientists estimate that between 1945 and 1958, the power of the nuclear weapons exploded in the world was equal to eight hundred times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. With each explosion, tiny particles that could not be seen, not even with a high-powered microscope, entered the atmosphere and traveled the world. Some of this so-called radioactive fallout dissipated, but some didn’t, including strontium-90, which accumulates in bones, especially the unformed bones of children, and can cause cancer, leukemia, or premature aging; and iodine-131, which accumulates in thyroid glands and can also cause cancer. This fallout landed on the plants that cows ate, and it passed on into their milk and into anyone who drank that milk.
Scientists estimate that between 1945 and 1958, the power of the nuclear weapons exploded in the world was equal to eight hundred times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. With each explosion, tiny particles that could not be seen, not even with a high-powered microscope, entered the atmosphere and traveled the world. Some of this so-called radioactive fallout dissipated, but some didn’t, including strontium-90, which accumulates in bones, especially the unformed bones of children, and can cause cancer, leukemia, or premature aging; and iodine-131, which accumulates in thyroid glands and can also cause cancer. This fallout landed on the plants that cows ate, and it passed on into their milk and into anyone who drank that milk.
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