Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-31035787-20130307093710/@comment-2094219-20130307185102

Xasparaz wrote: As a response to you brainsbeer,(morailty deteriorating yes -_- Dang you obama..) If tactiacally done. The nukes should not have damage done to surrounding areas. They are big enough to kill everyone in a city, not an entire country. And I hope that we would have more sense then to drop 50 hydrogen bombs on them. But you take out a few key points. Anyways, we won't attack first. We might not even attack after being attacked. The immediate damage caused by an nuclear bomb is dwarfed by the long-term and widespread effects. Yes, if the nukes are tactically placed, they may immediately destroy the city/country that they are aimed at, but radiation is widespread.

About a third of the bomb's total energy is given off as heat, or thermal radiation, which will effectively burn the skin off anyone unlucky enough to be standing within a few miles. About a tenth is ionizing radiation. That's the nasty stuff that would spread miles, very capable of crossing the Chinese and Russian borders, miles away. In the short term, you could expect to see rad sickness, in the long term, we'd be looking at cancer and birth defects in generations down the line.