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- Fallout — radioactive material from a nuclear explosion — exists in every corner of the world.
- Nuclear fallout from a bomb is less dangerous long-term than from a nuclear power plant disaster.
- Fallout raining from the sky is just one way people are exposed — food is another common culprit.
1. Fallout can stay in the atmosphere for years
Explosion of Nuclear Device "Seminole" on Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Ocean on June 6, 1956.
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