America's Secret Nuclear Disaster: The Santa Susana Field Laboratory

To David and the entire Cold War crew, can you please make a video on the history of Thailand during the Cold War. That way, all your viewers and subscribers will learn about Phibun's return to power (Phibun previously governed Thailand during WW2), Thailand's back-and-forth transition between civilian and military governments during the Cold War, as well as the country's lese-majeste laws (laws which basically criminalise negative public attitudes towards the country's royalty and royal institution) which became more strictly enforced during the Cold War. Thank you very much.

Great no wonder my teeth glow in the dark and my tomatoes are the size of pumpkins

I once knew three sisters; One died of Lymphatic cancer, one has had a double mastectomy and the surviving sister has to have Cancer screenings every six months. They lived on Chatsworth street and spent a lot of time in the surrounding hills.

Fascinating. I never heard of this before. Thanks David.

The rocket tests shook the whole western SFValley we were in granada hills just outside the nuke reactor danger zone my dad had thyroid cancer in 65 makes me wonder !!

Great Jobs guys, I had no idea about this event. Thanks for bringing this to light

I was 4 months old and my family lived 1/2 mile from the site when the disaster happened, and because we were never notified we continued to live there for another 10 years. My grandmother died of stomach cancer a few years after the accident, I have no doubt it resulted from drinking the well water! She was truly an awesome person and I still feel the loss. We received nothing from the responsible parties, not even a warning when it happened or an apology since then!

Back when the Superfund sites were being created my father noticed something odd about them. They were all former private industrial locations, or municipal waste disposal sites. No joint corporate/federal locations or federal controlled areas like military bases were listed. He'd been career navy and knew every base had places you didn't want to spend time at. It had been common practice to get rid of extra "stuff" by either tossing it in a burn pit or burning it in an oil drum. As long as it wasn't too noxious or no one immediately got sick, no one cared. If on a ship it was common to just toss it overboard. Not on your boat, not your problem.

Thanks as always for a well researched and presented subject.

I'm beginning to think the Fallout video games series are a reflection of real life events. Specifically Robco, REPCONN Aerospace, and the many other industries that lacked oversight and environmental safety standards.

"Pressure excursion" ... from now on, that's what I'll call my farts.

Thank you for all your hard work. It is appreciated. It is informative and entertaining, a wonderful way to present an important part of the human story.

Scary & infuriating.

Incredible, in the worst way.

The Chalk River nuclear accident in 1953 in Canada also never made headlines.

Thank you for sharing reality 🙏 about the gray of history ....some one seen gallfly inside others' eyes 👀 but don't see a tree branch inside his eyes.

As I recall, as late as 1975 Rocketdyne employees shot barrels of unstable chemicals with rifles causing them to explode thus disposing them. After work hours of course.

I'd love to see Radioactive Drew visit this place.

IIRC the Plainly Difficult channel covered this incident about 4 years ago.

If you ever visit Santa Susana, make sure you go to the Plutonium Building. It is very cool....well....not physically cool. It is kind of hot and glows at night, but you get what I mean.