Nuclear fallout from the Trinity Test damaged a batch of the Eastman Kodak Company's X-ray film.
In the coming months, 1,111 miles to the northeast, physicists in the Eastman Kodak Company headquarters began following that trail.
By testing the particles that settled in one of its manufacturing facilities, Kodak determined that they came from a nuclear bomb.
They agreed to give Kodak advance notice of any nuclear testing in exchange for them dropping legal action.
It took decades for the rest of the country and the world to find out about the dangers of nuclear fallout.
Persons:
they'd, Kodak's, Julian Webb, Webb, Geiger, Sen, Tom Harkin
Organizations:
Trinity, Eastman Kodak Company's, Kodak, Service, New Mexico Army, Eastman Kodak Company, Atomic Scientists, Atomic Energy Commission, Lions, CDC, Trinity Test Kodak, Manhattan, Trinity Test, Manhattan Project, Corbis, AEC, National Cancer Institute, Iowa
Locations:
Wall, Silicon, New Mexico, Nevada, Vincennes , Indiana, Alamogordo , New Mexico, Indiana, Rochester , New York, The Rochester , New York, United States, Utah, Idaho