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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 17. december 2001 / Time Line December 17, 2001
Version 3.516. December 2001, 18. December 2001
12/17/2001
Researchers worry that radiation from nuclear test decades ago may be damaging marine life today
By David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle
A 30-year-old legacy from the Cold War has surfaced on a remote Alaskan island, where scientists and Aleutian natives are concerned that radiation from the largest nuclear weapons blast ever conducted in America could now be leaking into the marine environment.
At precisely 11 a.m. on Nov. 6, 1971, weapons specialists from the Atomic Energy Commission exploded a 5-megaton bomb -- a prototype for a ballistic missile warhead -- inside a mile-deep shaft drilled beneath Amchitka Island only 87 miles from Petropavlovsk, Russia's Siberian naval base.
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