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People need to take potassium iodine, if it makes someone feel more secure having a supply onhand, that's a personal decision that that individual should make. >> right. well, can radioactive material from what's going on in japan make it way to america? >> we will undoubtedly at some point measure very, very low levels of radiation from the japanese disaster somewhere on american soil. and the punch line there is that whenever dust gets into the atmosphere, it eventually makes its way all around the world. so if it's a volcano in the philippines or a nuclear disaster in chernobyl or an atomic...

Detonated. the measurements of it by the usgs in the states put the blast at a scale reading of about 6.3,s which is massive. then there was a second explosion of some sort at about a 4, which appeared to be in the same location. the bottom line is this was a massive event, many times larger than the last confirmed atomic test by the north koreans about a year or so ago. so they have clearly moved their program forward. we know that they have been advancing their missile technology very rapidly during the last couple years and even during the last few months. we know they fired a long range mi...

Interesting, they didn't make any sort of announcement about it. i think they knew they probably wouldn't have to. the united states picked up signs of the radiation that was released by that test five days after the explosion. there was a u.s. surveillance plane flying near siberia and five days after the soviets first successful atomic test, that plane picked up these unexpected signs of radiation and so the u.s. collected what data we could, u.s. scientists set out to confirm the suspected tests and then finally almost three weeks after that surveillance plane first sniffed that radiation i...

Until august 6th and 9th, those two bombs dropped on japan. and to this day, the united states remains the only nation in the world to have ever used a nuclear weapon against an adversary in wartime. but looking back on the aftermath of that first test and the aftermath of those bombings in japan, it's clear that a singular and defining feature of the era in world history is that for years we were alone in that capacity. for years the united states was the only country on earth that had an atomic weapon. again, our first atomic test was july 1945. it was not until four years after that that an...

Other country had a successful nuclear test of their own. but it finally happened on august 29th, 1949. soviet union set off their first successful atomic test and it's interesting, they didn't make any sort of announcement about it. i think they knew they probably wouldn't have to. the united states picked up signs of the radiation that was released by that test five days after the explosion. there was a u.s. surveillance plane flying near siberia and five days after the soviets first successful atomic test, that plane picked up these unexpected signs of radiation and so the u.s. collected wh...