[ThRoewer]

Anyone ever seen "Nightbreaker"

You don't have to go all the way to the Central or West Pacific to find above ground nuclear test sites. There is the Nevada Test Site, just 65 mi north of Las Vegas where the US Department of Energy performed 100 atmospheric tests in the 1950s, quite a few of those with US soldiers as unknowing guinea pigs - not to study nuclear effects on the human body (those were quite known even before Hiroshima and Nagasaki) but rather to study and evaluate psychological responses. Those test caused those US soldiers all kinds of health problems and then the government tried denying the cause of those ailments was the radiation and fallout...