2 ms·

I think the lethality of fallout outside of cobalt bombs which I believe are not in use is greatly exaggerated. Just look at how many people witnessed h-bomb te

• giantg2 5y ago
  It depends. Single tests or incidents are not very widespread. But if we are talking many hundreds or thousands of high yield detonations, then the cumulative effect could be more serious. Even if things are not immediately deadly, the longterm effects can take their toll. The NM downwinders are one example, and even just single non-weapon incidents like Chernobyl have fairly large and longterm effects. It would be interesting to see how many nuclear detonations it would take to raise background radiation in 10sv steps by county.