Atmospheric testing fallout

["1LT Philip Hypes"<1lt_philip_hypes_at_chppm8__apgea@chppm-ccmail.apgea.army.mil>]

     According to the "Medical Consequences of Nuclear Warfare" Textbook of 
     Military Medicine, "Fallout from nuclear weapons testing peaked in 
     1964, after seventy-seven atmospheric detonations occurred in 1962.  
     Of the total fallout, 69% was from C-14, 4% was from Cs-137, and 3% 
     was from Sr-90.  The remaining 24% was from radioactive isotopes of 
     plutonium, rubidium, barium, iodine, iron, manganese, krypton, 
     americium, tritium, and zinc."
     


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