Carbon 14 and the Castle Bravo Test in 1954 - What's Coming?

karl emmer's article is worth reading in full. He begins by telling the story of the castle bravo test in 19 54, which is a both awe inspiring and horrifying and heart breaking. Later on he talks about the chicago physicist, willard libby, who is a nobel prize winning physical chemist. And one of the really interesting things that libby does is to compare measurements of methane from, say, living, current sources with those coming from fossil fuels.