The Nuclear Age coincided with the Cold War and the funny thing about that time is that competition between the two blocs in the world (U.S. and USSR) led to the experiments practiced all kinds related to new technologies and, of course, also with atomic energy.
Some of them could be categorized as a little 'odd' and now we bring the case is one of them. Someone in the U.S. It was the concern of wondering if the beer would be adversely affected by the radiation produces an atomic bomb, so they decided to include it in any of the nuclear testing era.
Leaving aside what led someone to ask this question and why, what is interesting is the result. During one such experiment placed a series of typical beer cans at a distance of 1.5 km and 3 km from the explosion of a nuclear bomb with the idea of later analyze and check what happened to them.
Surprisingly, the effects of radiation on the beer cans were minimal to the point stated that scientists might be used as 'Emergency drink' in case of the occurrence of some kind of nuclear disaster.
Regarding taste, looks like it was hit, it took a strange taste but apparently not much. In any case, the interesting part is the moral. If you ever see the need and you can choose, instead of drinking contaminated water always resort to a few cans of beer you can find.
