Not all nuclear bombs have the same fallout potential. Hydrogen bombs, for example, can be pretty clean depending on what they hit and scatter into the atmosphere.
If you're concerned, you're actually at greatest threat in areas which often have a lot of tornadoes.
Tornadoes are indications of low and high fronts meeting. Wherever they clash there is a place near them that often ends up with very little constant wind. These places where wind is low and the weather sorta just pools over them are at greatest risk, because the fallout has nowhere to go and just settles on top of their head. It's even worse if they are in valleys.
If the nuke hits near one of these areas, and it is a river valley, then not only will the area be afflicted, but also the river which passes through. That river will continue to carry the fallout downstream indefinitely, and you can take out a shit ton of towns and cities which congregate around those waterways.
Because of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers forming a valley, any place in Illinois would pollute the most downstream entities. Racine doesn't exactly feed into that, but if you strike when the wind is pushing south, you'll be able to maximize the damage while taking out a hotbed of your own malicious activities. Chicago will get taken out too, so there's that as well.
Chicago is the birthplace of Saul Alinsky Bulldog Politics. That's one of the reasons why Obama started up there as a community organizer.
great synopsis. Afaik hydrogen bombs are actually fusion and don't give off rads at all. but they need an atomic trigger which does, they're two bombs in one. assuming the public info actually reflects reality.
I read. something about how the nuclear fallout from a blast only lasts around 2 weeks, then it is safe to go outside. Not sure if that's true, but it came from a pretty renown scientist if I remember correctly.
Every radioactive isotope has a different half life, which is how much time it takes for half of a given sample to undergo decay (this decay is what emits nuclear radiation). Some isotopes have a half life of a few nanoseconds, others like Uranium-238 have a half life of several billion years.
What isotopes a nuke creates depends on what elements are in the material that make up the bomb and the immediate environment, as these atoms are going to be made radioactive by the detonation. You’re likely going to have somewhat random samplings of most isotopes in existence. I have no data to back this on, but 2 weeks sounds like a ball park estimate for the most radioactive isotopes with the shortest half lives to decay away into irrelevant amounts. If you can minimize your exposure to fallout in this time period, you’ll maximize your chances of survival.
Source: college physics classes and my own personal interest in science.
It is likely that the fallout is still hanging around after 2 weeks but is at safe levels to go outside. Has something to do with the half-life of radioactive elements if I am remembering correctly
Not all nuclear bombs have the same fallout potential. Hydrogen bombs, for example, can be pretty clean depending on what they hit and scatter into the atmosphere.
If you're concerned, you're actually at greatest threat in areas which often have a lot of tornadoes.
Tornadoes are indications of low and high fronts meeting. Wherever they clash there is a place near them that often ends up with very little constant wind. These places where wind is low and the weather sorta just pools over them are at greatest risk, because the fallout has nowhere to go and just settles on top of their head. It's even worse if they are in valleys.
If the nuke hits near one of these areas, and it is a river valley, then not only will the area be afflicted, but also the river which passes through. That river will continue to carry the fallout downstream indefinitely, and you can take out a shit ton of towns and cities which congregate around those waterways.
Because of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers forming a valley, any place in Illinois would pollute the most downstream entities. Racine doesn't exactly feed into that, but if you strike when the wind is pushing south, you'll be able to maximize the damage while taking out a hotbed of your own malicious activities. Chicago will get taken out too, so there's that as well.
Chicago is the birthplace of Saul Alinsky Bulldog Politics. That's one of the reasons why Obama started up there as a community organizer.
great synopsis. Afaik hydrogen bombs are actually fusion and don't give off rads at all. but they need an atomic trigger which does, they're two bombs in one. assuming the public info actually reflects reality.
I read. something about how the nuclear fallout from a blast only lasts around 2 weeks, then it is safe to go outside. Not sure if that's true, but it came from a pretty renown scientist if I remember correctly.
That’s why you take your Potassium Iodide for 2 weeks, by the end of those two weeks the fall out will have decayed enough to be ‘safe’
https://news.delaware.gov/2022/10/06/potassium-iodide-tablets-middletown-oct-13/
Every radioactive isotope has a different half life, which is how much time it takes for half of a given sample to undergo decay (this decay is what emits nuclear radiation). Some isotopes have a half life of a few nanoseconds, others like Uranium-238 have a half life of several billion years.
What isotopes a nuke creates depends on what elements are in the material that make up the bomb and the immediate environment, as these atoms are going to be made radioactive by the detonation. You’re likely going to have somewhat random samplings of most isotopes in existence. I have no data to back this on, but 2 weeks sounds like a ball park estimate for the most radioactive isotopes with the shortest half lives to decay away into irrelevant amounts. If you can minimize your exposure to fallout in this time period, you’ll maximize your chances of survival.
Source: college physics classes and my own personal interest in science.
It is likely that the fallout is still hanging around after 2 weeks but is at safe levels to go outside. Has something to do with the half-life of radioactive elements if I am remembering correctly
2 weeks to flatten the cloud
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