How Kodak Exposed Nuclear Testing
Veritasium3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2021-2025
6.7M views · 6 years ago · explainer · evergreen
Veritasium tells how Kodak film was fogged by radioactive fallout from the first atomic tests, letting the company detect nuclear testing before anyone announced it. The video also covers the deal to keep it quiet and how fallout contaminated packaging.
HN commenters bring it up as a good related watch in any thread about fallout, nuclear tests or detecting hidden events through indirect evidence.
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4 comments from Hacker News
At least LA wasn't down wind. Veritasium did an eye opening vid on how fallout blew across the country and was ruining Kodak's film on the East Coast. And they stayed quiet it about it. How Kodak Exposed Nuclear Testing ▶ this video
Veritasium has a cool video about a related topic titled "How Kodak exposed the atomic bomb". ▶ this video
Pretty good video from Veritasium o related to this, about how Kodak detected the presence of nuclear weapons tests. ▶ this video
It's interesting how powerful these bombs can be. Reminds me of when Kodak was able to detect atomic bomb testing in the US because of fogging on their X-ray films. link ▶ this video