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How Kodak Exposed Nuclear Testing
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
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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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Veritasium
- Topic
- nuclear testing history
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Pretty good video from Veritasium o related to this, about how Kodak detected the presence of nuclear weapons tests. [VIDEO]
jcims on Hacker News · 2021-09
In Why the U.S. once set off a nuclear bomb in spaceVeritasium has a cool video about a related topic titled "How Kodak exposed the atomic bomb". [VIDEO]
29athrowaway on Hacker News · 2022-01
In Nuclear fallout is showing up in U.S. honey, decades after bomb testsAt 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]
ourmandave on Hacker News · 2025-11
In How the Atomic Tests Looked Like from Los Angeles
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