Effects of irradiation on corn. Corn cob exposed to an atomic bomb, showing the effects of irradiation. This plant was exposed to nuclear fallout from

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Effects of irradiation on corn. Corn cob exposed to an atomic bomb, showing the effects of irradiation. This plant was exposed to nuclear fallout from an atom bomb test in the Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Bikini Atoll was the site of a number of above-ground nuclear weapons tests until the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1963. Photographed at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA.

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