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Jon H. Else

Jon H. Else

American filmmaker

Oct 20, 2026

6:29
Would you kind of illuminate that paradox?
6:32
Yeah, yeah.
6:33
I mean, you can trace cancers, particularly in the southwestern United States and in Kazakhstan and to some degree in the equatorial Pacific, statistically to nuclear testing.
6:48
It is still true that it's virtually impossible to trace a particular tumor, a particular cancer, to a particular radiation exposure.
6:58
Now, let me just give you some context here.
7:03
When a nuclear weapon is detonated above ground in what we call atmospheric testing, an average nuclear weapon, say 100 kilotons, 150 kilotons, When you see it on the television screen or on your iPhone or as I used to in a movie theater, it's this glorious mushroom cloud.
7:25
I mean it's luminescent, it's pink and it's purple and it's yellow and it's swirling like a big lava lamp.

26 MINS LATER

33:58
Maybe say a word about Priscilla and the pigs.
6:27
Would you kind of illuminate that paradox?
6:29
Yeah, yeah.
6:30
I mean, you can trace cancers, particularly in the southwestern United States and in Kazakhstan and to some degree in the equatorial Pacific, statistically to nuclear testing.
6:45
It is still true that it's... virtually impossible to trace a particular tumor, a particular cancer, to a particular radiation exposure.
6:55
Now, let me just give you some context here.
6:58
When a nuclear weapon is detonated above ground in what we call atmospheric testing, an average nuclear weapon, say 100 kilotons, 150 kilotons, When you see it on the television screen or on your iPhone or as I used to in a movie theater, it's this glorious mushroom cloud.
7:19
I mean, it's luminescent.

24 MINS LATER

31:22
Maybe say a word about Priscilla and the pigs.

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