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“The Day After Trinity,” made available without a subscription until August, shot to the top of the Criterion Channel’s most-watched films.

Ironically, despite America’s Cold War fears of being nuked by the Soviet Union, the only government that ever nuked us (and nuked us quite a bit) was our own.

Nuclear testing in the 1950s marked sediments at the bottom of a lake in Canada to such an extent that scientists are calling for it to become the symbol of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.

They hold the fingerprints of human activity from the byproducts of fossilfuels, microplastics, and the fallout from nuclear weapons testing. and it's the plutonium from these nuclear tests that's being isolated here to determine which year the anthropocene started. we're looking at the plutonium radioactivity in the early 1950s. that was the point when this almost entirely artificial product was globally dispersed. and we pick it up from the early 1950s in sediments all over the globe. the last epoch change happened more than 11,000 years ago. a record is buried in a bog on the isle of wight....

These sediments can be analyzed. they hold the fingerprints of human activity from the byproducts of fossilfuels, microplastics, and the fallout from nuclear weapons testing. and it's the plutonium from these nuclear tests that's being isolated here to determine which year the anthropocene started. we're looking at the plutonium radioactivity in the early 1950s. that was the point when this almost entirely artificial product was globally dispersed. and we pick it up from the early 1950s in sediments all over the globe. the last epoch change happened more than 11,000 years ago. a record is buri...