Those of you living in or who grew up in the Los Angeles area may find the following of interest. In 1954, when I was 9 and living in Pasadena, CA, a tremendous amount of radioactive crud was dumped on the West Coast of the USA courtesy of the thermonuclear test Castle-Bravo, which took place on March 1 of that year. By May 1954 the fallout from ( Read more... )