Nuclear Testing
...the day on which he was told he had leukaemia. He remembered his mother's tears, his father's bewildered anger, the alien feeling of the hospital's environment. His mind replayed the nausea and the diarrhoea caused by radiation therapy and chemotherapy, his hair falling out and kids laughing at him... Jimmy died gently, utterly exhausted having lost so much blood. His tissue had broken down completely, and he was bleeding from every body opening. His bed looked like a battlefield."
Jimmy: Hiroshima atomic bomb victim
Why Nuclear Tests Are Carried Out?
A Nuclear Test is an experiment involving the setting off of a nuclear warhead ("nuke"). All throughout the twentieth century almost every nation has developed and often tested nuclear weapons. Conducting nuclear tests provide scientists and military forces with information about how nukes work (known as "Weapons Related" testing), as well as how the weapons behave under a range of different conditions. Various structures and buildings are also subjected to nuclear explosions (known as the "Weapons Effects" testing). Additionally, nuclear tests are conducted to show a countries strength, many tests are openly conduct and political in their intention. Most states and countries publicly conduct nuclear tests to show their nuclear status and power.
Nuclear weapons tests are generally classified as being either: "atmospheric" (in or above the atmosphere), "underground", or "underwater". Of the three, underground testing (conducted in deep shafts) poses the least health risk in terms of fallout. Atmospheric testing poses the highest risk, coming in contact with the ground and other materials.
There are several ways nuclear weapons are tested; they can be dropped of planes (an "air drop"), hoisted by balloons, on barges at sea, from tops of towers, attached to the bottom of a ship, and even shot into outer...
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