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I also wonder how dangerous fallout was considered to be, in the long run. I have the impression that up into the late 60s fallout was considered dangerous in t
by jacobush 9y ago
I also wonder how dangerous fallout was considered to be, in the long run. I have the impression that up into the late 60s fallout was considered dangerous in the short term but not after say a year.
- arethuza 9y agoThere are rules of thumb like the 7:10 rule: https://emilms.fema.gov/IS3/FEMA_IS/is03/REM0504050.htm https://emilms.fema.gov/IS3/FEMA_IS/is03/REM0504050.htm Long term effects are tricky because of biological processes concentrating some elements (I think mainly calcium, iodine). Of course, if you want to get really nasty you can salt your bombs with appropriate elements (notably cobalt) that have long lived nasty isotopes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb