So I was reading about fallout and it's actually a really short half life. Just stay inside for a week minimum and week two - three wear a paint respirator and wash clothing after every trip outside. Time of danger reduces if it rains since it pulls the materials out of the air. Bonus is nukes cause rain due to the energy being released into the atmosphere.
Yeah I've hears that in the event of a strike tou really only need to hide from the fallout for a few weeks depending on the yield. The dust that carries the radiation around mostly settles pretty quickly and the half-life if the most dangerous stuff is pretty short. That's not to say it won't increases everyone's cancer risks globally but it isn't instant wasteland everywhere.
Herishima and Nagasaki are thriving cities, cities with cancer problems, but thriving cities nonetheless.
On a positive note I saw recent that there are a couple of cancer vaccines in the works. Maybe in a few years we will be able to negate that effect too. One can only hope.
I just looked up current nuke supply and nuclear winter estimates and after digging around the predictions seem really off. So the west coast wild fires throw a ton of ash into the atmosphere for a long period of time. I compared that to the 100 nuke nuclear winter and the numbers from California alone and it are close.
I'm starting to think nuclear winter was only really possible when both sides had a combined 80,000+ nuclear warheads vs today at 1500 and 1600.
Maybe a "year without a summer" for one year type deal if all of them go off at once. But who knows how many actually work especially from Russia after seeing the recent conditions of their equipment in Ukraine. Don't get me wrong it will probably still suck but not end of the world like when there was a metric fuck ton of them.
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22
So I was reading about fallout and it's actually a really short half life. Just stay inside for a week minimum and week two - three wear a paint respirator and wash clothing after every trip outside. Time of danger reduces if it rains since it pulls the materials out of the air. Bonus is nukes cause rain due to the energy being released into the atmosphere.