If your household is blasted by a nuclear bomb and most everyone you know dies or is at the very least hard mangled , you ’re going to need a drink . candidly , you ’ll go to call for many drink . The good news program is , no matter how many love single are veil , your beer is still safe .
Operation Teapot was a serial of 14 atomic test done in Nevada in 1955.Restricted Datahas learned that some of those tests involved package food which , give thanks god for our future nuke selves , included beer . Buds were locate in varying distances from the blast site — the nearest were just 1,000 feet out and the furthest were a stat mi forth . After sustaining blasts of 20 - 30 kilotons , the brews were find to be a - okay . Or rather potable for “ emergency use ” and safe “ in the short term . ” The trial also found the taste was whole not even skunk . But you probably do n’t even give care once you ’ve made it through a nuclear holocaust . [ Restricted DataviaNPRviaPopSci ]
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