In 1964, a nuclear bomb exploded in Mississippi and really messed up a guy's kitchen

A resident constructs a homemade seismograph before the blast.Image: Moncrief Photograph Collection/Mississippi Department of Archives and HistoryAt 10 a.m. on Oct. 22, 1964, a five-kiloton nuclear device was detonated in Lamar County, Mississippi.The previous year, as a response to rising public anxiety over the potential fallout of bigger and bigger test explosions, the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union had signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited all nuclear testin