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I remember seeing "when the wind blows" (UK cartoon about an old couple slowly dying from radiation sickness after a nuclear war) when I was kid and that really

• badcppdev 3y ago
  I read the graphic novel version of "When the Wind Blows" as a child about 40 years ago. I don't remember being scared but to this day I still think about how I would improvise a fall-out proof shelter in my own house.
  • dylan604 3y ago
    are you going to live in that shelter for the rest of your life? lots of people tend to think of these shelters as a temporary space during the explosions, sort of like a tornado shelter. you seek shelter, and then come back out after the event has passed. only, that fallout isn't going any where any time soon. maybe it'll wash away after a couple of rain storms, but it's also going to soak into the ground. so, that shelter better be prepped for a really long stay.
    • jdietrich 3y ago
      >that fallout isn't going any where any time soon. It becomes exponentially less radioactive due to decay. The long-lived isotopes that persist might eventually give you cancer or cataracts, but the short-lived isotopes present in the immediate aftermath of a blast will kill you. The dose makes the poison and fallout shelters vastly reduce the absorbed dose of radioactivity.