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Post by Gnorn on Feb 14, 2005 23:40:58 GMT
What bollocks you all talk! We all know that all you have to do in case of an atomic explosion, is duck and cover!
-Gnorn
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Post by Gerkinman on Feb 15, 2005 3:14:20 GMT
if i do remember correclty, hiding under a table will also save you
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syrtismajor
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Heat rays are for wimps, all hail the egg whisk!
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Post by syrtismajor on Feb 15, 2005 16:39:58 GMT
Remember that the term 'Fallout' is only applied to radioactive debris that is released from a nuclear detonation or radioactive release. True that airbursts are used to create more destruction. But fallout is reduced by an air burst. Actual fallout is debris that is sucked up into the nuclear 'furnace' (ball of fire in effect) and is atomically altered (Actually makes the debris radioactively 'active'). Groundbursts vapourise the local soil etc that is instantly sucked up into the still burning furnace creating the instantly recognisable 'Mushroom cloud' and tons of active fallout. Airbursts however do create larger amounts of damage per ton of explosive force, but don't instantly create the mushroom cloud. By the time the debris has reached the 'furnace', most remenants of the reaction have dissapated (Most nuclear fission that occurs after the initial chain reaction has ceased) meaning that the dust only gets exposed to radiation rather than atomically altered by it. Thus more dust and debris is created but is only radioactively contaminated, not radioactive itself resulting in less fallout. Air and atmospheric detonations are said to be 'cleaner' than ground bursts. This is why when testing nukes in the late 60's they either did air or underground tests when the effects of damage could easily be calculated, main the reasons for the tests were purely for yield, efficiency EMP production and fallout testing. I did lots of research into nuclear testing for a novella I'm trying to write at the moment so apologise if something I said was rubbish, but all documents I read (both military and civilian) agree that groundbursts create a considerably larger amount of fallout than air or atmospheric bursts.
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Post by malfunkshun on Feb 16, 2005 2:51:40 GMT
ok, maybe thats true, but i don't understand what the difference between 'radioactively altered' and 'radioactively conatminated' material is. both would be radioactive and not good to have falling downwind for hundreds of miles
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Post by theheatray on Feb 16, 2005 21:19:21 GMT
NO NUKES! NO NUKES! NO NUKES! Sorry
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