In its August 2019 issue, the magazine Ca m’intéresse reports on the discovery made by Mario Wannier and his co-authors. In the sand on the beaches of Hiroshima, the authors have identified exotic particles whose origin they attribute to the materials produced by the explosion of the nuclear bomb on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Jérémy Jacob, a CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement and a specialist in the Anthropocene, was asked to give his opinion on this original discovery.
References :
Nathalie Picard (with a contribution from Jérémy Jacob). “Ça m’intéresse”, Août 2019
Wannier, M.M.A., de Urreiztieta, M., Wenk, H.R., Stand, C.V., Tamura, N., Yuec, B., 2019. Fallout melt debris and aerodynamically-shaped glasses in beach sands of Hiroshima Bay, Japan. Anthropocene 25. Doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2019.100196