bojacobs, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

The fallout from the Trinity Test that landed in Indiana led to the contamination of strawboard boxes, some of which were used by the Kodak Company to ship film. The radiation from the fallout fogged the film, making it unusable. The story made newspapers after the news of the nuclear attacks on #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki.

When nuclear testing started at the Nevada Test Site in 1951, Kodak was given top secret information about the scheduling of tests so that they could protect their products.

The people who lived downwind from the Nevada nuclear tests were not given the same consideration as the products of the Kodak Company.

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#NuclearTesting #NTS #Kodak #ColdWar @histodons @sts

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a21382/how-kodak-accidentally-discovered-radioactive-fallout/