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IN October 1957 Gonsior and Friedman1 observed a strong peak in the tritium content of molecular hydrogen for air samples taken at Hamburg, Germany. They attributed this peak to the direct admixture of tritiated hydrogen produced on October 7, 1957, by a large thermonuclear explosion in the U.S.S.R. However, the mean monthly concentration of long-lived fission products in surface air showed no unusual increase during October 1957 (ref. 2). Additionally, no other such peaks have been observed to occur following the other thermonuclear test explosions during that period.
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EHHALT, D., BAINBRIDGE, A. A Peak in the Tritium Content of Atmospheric Hydrogen following the Accident at Windscale. Nature 209, 903–904 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/209903a0
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