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its the shockwave blast that can go quite far. it can protect from glass and such and "may" help even from debris and colapses. nothing is helping you at ground

by reshie 8y ago

its the shockwave blast that can go quite far. it can protect from glass and such and "may" help even from debris and colapses. nothing is helping you at ground zero except a deep bunker. there is the fallout but thats another story.

rolph 8y ago
when you see the flash its too late to avoid the gamma ray xray and neutron blast that happens [lets call it Rad dosage for now]. The only thing that can be done about that is to know ahead of time that incoming ordinance is on its way and put the greatest series of high density material between you and a direct line of transit to the centre of the detonation. Next comes the thermal blast and the [latent] acoustic shock/pressure wave. this is where depending on yield of the munitions, you want to be in a very sturdy shelter, or perhaps out in the open to make the suffering very short lived. I think one of the most famous ground zero survivors was a file clerk that had gone to a basement to retrieve some reams of documents. a long story about it all is in here: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...] this survivor was underground, and surrounded by a tightly packed library of documents btween themself and an >ATOMIC< blast. you may duck and cover and avoid shrapnel but RAD dosage espescially from neutrons is something else. neutrons interact very weakly if at all via charge as they are neutral [but do oscillate type] neutrons do have a small amount of mass, they dont seem to interact strongly in a gravitational sense but the extreme velocity of the neutron flux creates a substantial momentum and plays billiards with the nucleii of your body and surrounding materials, like a subatomic shotgun all over you.
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nitwit005 8y ago
Why would the fallout be another story? People were certain the world would literally end. Living another week or two isn't much of a public safety goal.
- rolph 8y ago
  you have time from detonation to the time of fallout. there is a lot of debris hurtled toward you and _some_ radioactive materials, but most of the fallout is swept up airbourne, and begins coating every thing in dust and is in the air around in about a half hour. you have between 3 days and a week of hunkering down and being fastidiously clean about any dust or particles before the fall out is down to a "dull roar" thats when its time to suit up and get away from the fallout zone.
  - nitwit005 8y ago
    You kind of skipped the world ending issue.

by reshie 8y ago

rolph 8y ago

when you see the flash its too late to avoid the gamma ray xray and neutron blast that happens [lets call it Rad dosage for now]. The only thing that can be done about that is to know ahead of time that incoming ordinance is on its way and put the greatest series of high density material between you and a direct line of transit to the centre of the detonation. Next comes the thermal blast and the [latent] acoustic shock/pressure wave. this is where depending on yield of the munitions, you want to be in a very sturdy shelter, or perhaps out in the open to make the suffering very short lived. I think one of the most famous ground zero survivors was a file clerk that had gone to a basement to retrieve some reams of documents. a long story about it all is in here: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...] this survivor was underground, and surrounded by a tightly packed library of documents btween themself and an >ATOMIC< blast. you may duck and cover and avoid shrapnel but RAD dosage espescially from neutrons is something else. neutrons interact very weakly if at all via charge as they are neutral [but do oscillate type] neutrons do have a small amount of mass, they dont seem to interact strongly in a gravitational sense but the extreme velocity of the neutron flux creates a substantial momentum and plays billiards with the nucleii of your body and surrounding materials, like a subatomic shotgun all over you.

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nitwit005 8y ago

Why would the fallout be another story? People were certain the world would literally end. Living another week or two isn't much of a public safety goal.

rolph 8y ago
you have time from detonation to the time of fallout. there is a lot of debris hurtled toward you and _some_ radioactive materials, but most of the fallout is swept up airbourne, and begins coating every thing in dust and is in the air around in about a half hour. you have between 3 days and a week of hunkering down and being fastidiously clean about any dust or particles before the fall out is down to a "dull roar" thats when its time to suit up and get away from the fallout zone.
- nitwit005 8y ago
  You kind of skipped the world ending issue.