The United States conducted many nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s. Recently, it was discovered that the legacy of these tests can remain for decades in American honey, according to a report. After World War II, the United States and other countries, including China and the former Soviet Union, performed hundreds of aboveground nuclear tests. These bombs ejected a chemical element called radiocesium (a radioactive form of the element cesium) into the atmosphere. Winds then spread the substance around the world until it fell out of the skies in microscopic particles. Due to regional wind and rainfall patterns, the spread was not uniform. For instance, the U.S. east coast received far more contamination than some other places, according to the report. The recent research started with a spring break assignment. James Kaste, a geologist at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, asked his undergraduate students to …