Glassy menagerie of particles in beach sands near Hiroshima is fallout debris, study concludes

Science Daily  May 13, 2019 An international team of researchers (Malaysia, France, USA – UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) recovered complex association of millimeter-sized, aerodynamically-shaped debris, including glass spherules, glass filaments, and composite-fused melt particles was from beach sands on the shores of the Motoujina Peninsula in Hiroshima Bay, Japan. These paticles are generally produced by single high-energy catastrophic events, such as an extraterrestrial body impacting Earth or a nuclear explosion. This study interprets the large volumes of fallout debris generated under extreme temperature conditions as products of the Hiroshima August 6th, 1945 atomic bomb aerial detonation. The […]