How Nuclear Weapons Made Shipwrecks More Valuable
Low-background steel and illegal salvage
5 min readMar 27, 2024
When the United States detonated the first nuclear bomb in 1945, the world changed in more ways than one. Everyone who watched the first mushroom cloud blossom over the New Mexico desert that fateful day knew that the world would never be the same. However, they had no idea that the world would change in small…