In Southern Germany, scientists had recently discovered that wild boars had high levels of radioactive cesium, making some unsafe to eat. Research showed that nuclear weapons tests from the mid-20th century were largely responsible for the high radioactivity. Both the weapons tests and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster continued to affect the boars due to their diet. Georg Steinhauser, a co-author of the study and a radiochemist at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria, told The Washington Post, “My mind was blown when I realized how relevant this source of radioactive contamination still i…