Cold War nuclear tests changed rainfall thousands of miles away
Thursday, May 14, 2020 - 10:10
in Earth & Climate
It's difficult to imagine quite how alarming it would have been for the world's meteorologists monitoring the atmosphere during the nuclear tests in the 1950s and early 60s. The radioactivity released in the Arctic and South Pacific test sites caused patterns of electrical disturbance that were apparent thousands of miles away, from Japan to the UK.