Yeah what about the radiation. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were up and running days after. Where's the nuclear fallout and radiation? Where is the cancer and health problems due to radiation? They have the longest average lifespan there and you don't see anybody suffering from health issues they say radiation would cause. Something doesn't add up.
But there were problems to the unborn. In short, women who were pregnant near those bombs had higher rates of babies with anencephaly and mental retardation. They often did not survive into adulthood. However, babies who were conceived after the detonations did not have these malformations.
Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands is a good source if you want more info.
First of all, the threat from fallout was overblown by popular media (and still is). All along, the government has emphasized survivability in the face of nuclear weapons (fallout shelters, etc.). It is the popular media that has promoted the "We are better off dead" line of thinking.
Not letting fear control your thinking is good. But don't let ignorance control your thinking. That is no better.
Well, I don't fear radiation, LOL. I've seen radiotherapy work wonders. I agree there is much fearmongering over radiation.
As for the nuked cities being up and running in a few days - the most dangerous of radioisotopes have such short half-lives that they are significantly reduced after 72 hours. A 'simple' fission bomb will produce more radioactive fall out than would a pure fusion weapon; however, since fusion weapons don't (reportedly... [cough] ahem [/ahem]) exist. On the other hand, thermonuclear weapons (fission-fusion type) tend to cause more fallout than an atomic bomb (fission only) as more of the fissile material undergoes fission due to the fission-fusion-fission design. Even for these, the most dangerous of the fallout decays within 72 hours to a week at most.
What does a Geiger counter and/or neutron detector detect? Work adjacent to anyone who was MUNSS or eve talk to them... is their work pointless?
Yeah what about the radiation. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were up and running days after. Where's the nuclear fallout and radiation? Where is the cancer and health problems due to radiation? They have the longest average lifespan there and you don't see anybody suffering from health issues they say radiation would cause. Something doesn't add up.
I don't let fear control my thinking.
But there were problems to the unborn. In short, women who were pregnant near those bombs had higher rates of babies with anencephaly and mental retardation. They often did not survive into adulthood. However, babies who were conceived after the detonations did not have these malformations.
Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands is a good source if you want more info.
https://www.aasc.ucla.edu/cab/200708230012.html
First of all, the threat from fallout was overblown by popular media (and still is). All along, the government has emphasized survivability in the face of nuclear weapons (fallout shelters, etc.). It is the popular media that has promoted the "We are better off dead" line of thinking.
Not letting fear control your thinking is good. But don't let ignorance control your thinking. That is no better.
Well, I don't fear radiation, LOL. I've seen radiotherapy work wonders. I agree there is much fearmongering over radiation.
As for the nuked cities being up and running in a few days - the most dangerous of radioisotopes have such short half-lives that they are significantly reduced after 72 hours. A 'simple' fission bomb will produce more radioactive fall out than would a pure fusion weapon; however, since fusion weapons don't (reportedly... [cough] ahem [/ahem]) exist. On the other hand, thermonuclear weapons (fission-fusion type) tend to cause more fallout than an atomic bomb (fission only) as more of the fissile material undergoes fission due to the fission-fusion-fission design. Even for these, the most dangerous of the fallout decays within 72 hours to a week at most.
What does a Geiger counter and/or neutron detector detect? Work adjacent to anyone who was MUNSS or eve talk to them... is their work pointless?