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Well, if it renders areas uninhabitable, leaves infrastructure intact but radioactive, and kills the population - apart from the physical destruction bit, the e
by madaxe_again 9y ago
Well, if it renders areas uninhabitable, leaves infrastructure intact but radioactive, and kills the population - apart from the physical destruction bit, the effects are just as bad.
It's not the big explosions that are a problem in nuclear war - it's the fallout.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> It's not the big explosions that are a problem in nuclear war No, I'm pretty sure those are definitely a problem. > it's the fallout. That's also a problem, but a thermonuclear ground burst is going to produce several orders of magnitude more fallout than a nuclear ramjet.
- mikeash 9y agoFallout is bad, but not “a couple million people fried in an instant” bad. It would suck to have a large area contaminated, and hundreds or thousands of people might die, but that’s still way better.