Bomb pulse
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bomb-pulse-170-13256366
title:
Bomb pulse
text:
The bomb pulse is the sudden increase of carbon-14 (ⁱ⁴C) in the Earth's atmosphere due to the hundreds of aboveground nuclear bombs tests that started in 1945 and intensified after 1950 until 1963, when the Limited Test Ban Treaty was signed by the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. These hundreds of blasts were followed by a doubling of the relative concentration of ⁱ⁴C in the atmosphere. The reason for the term “relative concentration”, is because the measurements of ⁱ⁴C l
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description:
Sudden increase of carbon-14 in the Earth's atmosphere due to nuclear bomb tests
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_pulse
date created:
2015-10-24T20:55:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T04:44:53Z
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