That fallout doesn't seem as huge a problem as it is often made out to be. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not wastelands, they are relatively large cities, and they

That fallout doesn't seem as huge a problem as it is often made out to be. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not wastelands, they are relatively large cities, and they basically never stopped being ones, even immediately after the bombs fell. The pure destruction of the explosion was a worse problem than the fallout overall - and with today's much higher yields and much more densely populated cities, that seems likely to continue to be the case.