Question of the Day – Will Beer Survive A Nuclear Attack?

Question of the Day – Will Beer Survive A Nuclear Attack?

via Dvorak News Blog by Uncle Dave on 9/22/12

Whew! Glad that was cleared up. If you survived a nuclear holocaust, what would be your pleasure at the Mad Max Bar and Thunderdome?

Is bottled beer nuclear bombproof? The United States government conducted a couple tests in the 1950s to find out—it exploded nuclear bombs with “packaged commercial beverages” deposited at varying distances from the blast center to see if beer and soda would be safe to drink afterwards. The finding? Yep, surviving bottled and canned drinks can be consumed the event of a nuclear holocaust, without major health risks.