fallout

Examples of fallout in the following topics:

• The Sulfur Cycle

  • Sulfur is deposited on land as precipitation, fallout, and rock weathering, and reintroduced when organisms decompose.
  • On land, sulfur is deposited in four major ways: precipitation, direct fallout from the atmosphere, rock weathering, and decomposition of organic materials.
  • Sulfur can also fall directly from the atmosphere in a process called fallout.
  • Sulfur enters the ocean via runoff from land, fallout, and underwater geothermal vents.
  • Sulfur dioxide from the atmosphere becomes available to terrestrial and marine ecosystems when it is dissolved in precipitation as weak sulfuric acid or when it falls directly to the earth as fallout.

• Genetic Defects from Radiation

  • Ionizing radiation from fallout can cause genetic effects, birth defects, cancer, cataracts, and other organ and tissue defects.
  • Ionizing radiation from fallout can cause genetic effects, birth defects, cancer, cataracts, and other organ and tissue defects.

• National Security

  • In "Duck and Cover," Bert the Turtle advocated that children "duck and cover" when they "see the flash. " Booklets were also commonplace, such as "Survival Under Atomic Attack," "Fallout Protection," and "Nuclear War Survival Skills".
  • President Kennedy launched an ambitious effort to install fallout shelters throughout the United States.

• The Ostend Manifesto and Cuba

  • It became a rallying cry for Northerners in the events that would later be termed "Bleeding Kansas," and the political fallout was a significant setback for the Pierce Administration.
  • Pierre Soulé, the driving force behind the Ostend Manifesto and its resultant political fallout.

• The Effects of Watergate

  • Fallout from Watergate led to Democratic victories in the mid-term elections of 1974, in which Democrats gained five seats in the Senate and 49 in the House.

• Nuclear Weapons

  • The Partial Test Ban Treaty (1963) restricted all nuclear testing to underground facilities, to prevent contamination from nuclear fallout, while the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968) attempted to place restrictions on the types of activities signatories could participate in, with the goal of allowing the transference of non-military nuclear technology to member countries without fear of proliferation.

• The Nuclear Arms Race

  • Large underground bunkers were constructed to save the leaders, and citizens were told to build fallout shelters and taught how to react to a nuclear attack.

• Wall Street Crash of 1929

  • The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.

• The Double Disasters

  • The fallout from Manzikert was disastrous for the Byzantines, resulting in civil conflicts and an economic crisis that severely weakened the Byzantine Empire's ability to adequately defend its borders.

• The Challenge of Ethics and Governance

  • Leading up to the mortgage-backed security fallout of 2008, banks and investors began to prioritize profitability over ethics.