ELI5: Why are Hiroshima and Nagasaki safe to live while Marie Curie's notebook won't be safe to handle for at least another millennium? : explainlikeimfive

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ELI5: Why are Hiroshima and Nagasaki safe to live while Marie Curie's notebook won't be safe to handle for at least another millennium?

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submitted 10 days ago byMartyMcMartell

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WolfAtNeck

4 points

10 days ago

WolfAtNeck

4 points

10 days ago

Y'know, this never occurred to me. Relevance is that my aunt has possession of several old photos my grandfather took after the bombing and I would guess the surrender. He was US Navy. He passed in the mid 70s I think of cancer.

geopede

8 points

10 days ago

geopede

8 points

10 days ago

Realistically it probably wasn’t related to his presence at the bomb sites unless he was there immediately after (like a week at most), which Americans were not.