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How Kodak Exposed Nuclear Testing

Veritasium · 6.7M views · 2020-09-16 · 13:20

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Overview

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.

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HN commenters bring it up as a good related watch in any thread about fallout, nuclear tests or detecting hidden events through indirect evidence.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2021–2025

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Military history & warfareWorld historyScientific method & science communication
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kodakradioactive falloutatomic bombfilm foggingcold war

What people said

ourmandave · 2025-11 · Recommendation

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 [VIDEO]

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29athrowaway · 2022-01 · Recommendation

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

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jcims · 2021-09 · Recommendation

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

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