Partial Test Ban Treaty: Trivia

    Partial Test Ban Treaty: Trivia

      Perversely, atomic bombs are often given funny, cute, or catchy names. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima was called "Little Boy." The one dropped on Nagasaki? "Fat Man." (Source)

      Greenpeace was founded by the world's broccoli enthusiasts...just joking. Greenpeace is actually incredibly humorless, and for good reason. It was founded in 1971 as a protest response to a scheduled nuclear weapons test in Alaska. The organization has since flourished to become one of the world's leading environmental and peace activism groups. (Source)

      Among the Allied powers of World War II, France and China said non, merci to the PTBT. (Source)

      The U.S. signed and ratified the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (ABM Treaty) in 1972, but it withdrew from the treaty in 2002. Uh, who thought that was a good idea? (Source)

      Despite arguments in favor of the "relative safety" of underground nuclear testing, the radiation released from these tests—like iodine-131, plutonium, iodine-129, and caesium-135—still enters into the soil, thus making it toxic. Do you know what comes from the soil? Food. Bon appetit! (Source)

      The Tsar Bomba was so powerful that it contained the blast power of 58 million tons of TNT. This measures out to be about, oh, just all of the explosives used in World War II...times 10. (Source)