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1954 was a turning point for environmentalism
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in the nation and in the world
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because it basically taught people to think at a global scale
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about nature and about the environment
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for the very first time.
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And it's the result of this explosion on the Bikini Atoll in
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the Marshall Islands that punched up radioactive material
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into the stratosphere.
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And at the time, they thought that well,
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we had to worry about where it would go, how it would be
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distributed, within a couple hundred miles.
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And a variety of mistakes were made, including exposing people