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    How Kodak Exposed Nuclear Testing

    Veritasium

    3 HN recommenders · recommended in 4 months, 2021–2025

    YouTube

    13:20 · 6.7M views · Sep 16, 2020

    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

    1. @ourmandaveNov 2025· in “How the Atomic Tests Looked Like from Los Angeles”

      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

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    2. @jcimsSep 2021· in “Why the U.S. once set off a nuclear bomb in space”

      Pretty good video from Veritasium o related to this, about how Kodak detected the presence of nuclear weapons tests. this video

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    3. @29athrowawayJan 2022· in “Nuclear fallout is showing up in U.S. honey, decades after bomb tests”

      Veritasium has a cool video about a related topic titled "How Kodak exposed the atomic bomb". this video

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    4. @sss111Jul 2021· in “Bomb Pulse”

      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

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