Map of radioactive fallout in the western US from nuclear testing. I think it's interesting that the first test, Trinity, in New Mexico is visible.

I do wish there was some scale on this. What exactly is being measured? Different elements would likely be dropping out at slightly different locations. It is pretty incredible to think that we have nuked one little area of Nevada nearly 1000 times. Additionally, we've blown up a couple of reactors out there as well.

@CodysLab Find some species at Chickenhole?

@CodysLab @LargeCardinal

@CodysLab Do you know the source data for this, Cody?

@CodysLab Are those high altitude winds or mountain passes

@CodysLab See this is why Utah Godzilla makes sense

@CodysLab I wonder if there’s a heat map for cancer rates in the United States if they’re correlated.

@CodysLab Should probably clarify that the map is estimated dispersion from the Nevada tests based on modelled weather patterns. arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/pape…

@CodysLab It was basically a groundburst so it kicked up a lot of debris.

@CodysLab Interesting that it's the color of iodine. A great representation of I131. You didn't have to live in an intense zone to get a good dose of radioiodine. If you drank milk back then, you got some.

@CodysLab Seems like more than a quarter of this is…. Farm land?

@CodysLab I think it's interesting that the US blew up nukes in the US to protect itself from nukes blowing up in the US. #Logic

@CodysLab I suspect it’s not actual data, just a simulation (a plume dispersion code) with the same source term in the atmosphere at each test point.

@CodysLab What isotope is this, and what's the scale?

@CodysLab Map of world with ocean tests

@CodysLab @steveMmattison

@CodysLab @nyanotech Kodak infamously found contamination as far east as Indiana.

@CodysLab Look up Downwinders and Atomic Veterans. The latter have their own national holiday now, too.

@CodysLab When was the data gathering taken ? And how ?

@CodysLab Poor St. George, Utah. 'It's safe' -the Government. What's with the accumulation along the foothills of the Rockies?

@CodysLab And we thought leaded gas was bad

@CodysLab Anyone know what this hotspot north-west of Trinity is?

@CodysLab Criminal

@CodysLab Radiation is a scam

@CodysLab Welp. Looks like where I grew up was pretty contaminated. I lost several older family members to cancer that was directly attributed to being downwind of that.

@CodysLab It's not interesting. It's normal. It will be visible for many more years.you contaminated yourselves with radioactivity back then.

@CodysLab @SimonStormRider We’re doing pretty well here in Portland. Of course a lot of our rocks make radioactive gas, so….

@CodysLab Cool map! What is the source?

@CodysLab What is the source @CodysLab ?

@CodysLab Trinity was quite a dirty device.

@CodysLab Ok, they _modeled_ the fallout after 94 tests, using historical weather data. This is not a measurement, but just an estimation. Thanks to Grownz for providing the source. twitter.com/Grownz/status/…

@CodysLab Might this explain a lot, or not enough to have an impact?

@CodysLab Of course I moved to the one spot in Cali with the nuclear testing fallout

@CodysLab Is this why westerners are so weird 🤔

@CodysLab @craigbob99 Damn I got nuked

@CodysLab Everyone got their iodine tablets ready? Somehow it seems prudent nowadays to have some.