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Lateral with Tom Scott
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Kodak's Secret Nuclear Test Program
Kodak found that a new isotope, Syrian 141, had contaminated the strawboard packaging. It was during the nuclear warhead testing program? Yes. They got all sorts of complaints about it. So he were concerned about the film and not the people who are actually packaging this in a handle, isn't it? There is one other detail here which made it really, really difficult for Kodak to work out what was happening. What would that have been? You're cheating here, Tom,. I'll ask you a question. Just... It's the military in the 1940s and 50s. Mmm. It was all secret.
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