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Atomic Bomb Parties and Nuclear Fallout

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Problem With Radiation Levels

The average level of natural background radiation in the United States is about 350 milliram a year. There are two ways that it enters the body through external and internal means. It can be as simple as, all right, I eat a carrot and the carrot has particles of radioactive particles on it from the fallout. Or I eat,. um, I don't know, I eat the rabbit that ate the carrot. See, it ends up impacting the entire food chain of which we are apart. And if you drink the milk that came from the cow that ate the grass that the fallout fell on. Then you're going to have some possible health problems there. Yeah.

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