Shootings in Paris

[Silures]

90,000 dead from one bomb. The Yanks were evil. They simply wanted to see the true effects of the bomb, and we've been living with a background of fear of nuclear holocaust ever since.

The Yanks never started the war with the Japs. The Japs wanted it, they got what they deserved. As for the threat of a nuclear Holocaust. That threat is probably the only thing that's keeping the Savage human race from going full retard. I sometimes wish it would really kick off. A full scale nuclear war might save more people than all these scermishes that are constantly happening throughout the world

[CCFCPhil]

The Yanks never started the war with the Japs. The Japs wanted it, they got what they deserved. As for the threat of a nuclear Holocaust. That threat is probably the only thing that's keeping the Savage human race from going full retard. I sometimes wish it would really kick off. A full scale nuclear war might save more people than all these scermishes that are constantly happening throughout the world

They say cockroaches will survive the holocaust so at least it won't affect your post count.

[Gofer Blue]

The Yanks never started the war with the Japs. The Japs wanted it, they got what they deserved. As for the threat of a nuclear Holocaust. That threat is probably the only thing that's keeping the Savage human race from going full retard. I sometimes wish it would really kick off. A full scale nuclear war might save more people than all these scermishes that are constantly happening throughout the world

Are you for real? In your full-scale nuclear war those who aren't instantly vapourised or incinerated in the fireball will die a slow agonising death from third degree burns or radiation sickness. There will be no safe place on the planet unless you live in North Korea where they seem to believe they will survive! (It's skirmishes by the way).

[xsnaggle]

[QUOTE=Gofer Blue;4735717]Are you for real? In your full-scale nuclear war those who aren't instantly vapourised or incinerated in the fireball will die a slow agonising death from third degree burns or radiation sickness. There will be no safe place on the planet unless you live in North Korea where they seem to believe they will survive! (It's skirmishes by the way).[/QUOTe

Your death by radiation and burns quote is not accurate as neither is a foregone conclusion.
Radiation after a blast is caused by the debris and dust from the mushroom cloud dropping irradiated particles which then can give anyone surviving a blast radiation sickness,where ever that cloud blows. However, the mushroom and debris in the sky is caused by a groundburst, where the fireball touches the ground. If the explosion is an air burst there is now fallout and therefore no radiation sickness.
Why would an enemy do this? an air burst creates twice the blast and initial destruction which has more chance of nullifying all the defences in place, and it also means that the enemy can then occupy the ground because it is not contaminated.
Using an air burst weapon on N Korea for example might destroy infrastructure and kill those in the immediate blast range but there would no long term threat of radiation poisoning inflicted on the nation or its neighbours.
burns come from being exposed to the initial heat wave if you are in the open when the blast accurs, but anything between you and the blast will protect you, as the 'wall' of heat is extremely hot but very thin. burns after the fact are caused by fires started from gas and elctricity supplies being ruptured and starting fire.

[Gofer Blue]

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Are you for real? In your full-scale nuclear war those who aren't instantly vapourised or incinerated in the fireball will die a slow agonising death from third degree burns or radiation sickness. There will be no safe place on the planet unless you live in North Korea where they seem to believe they will survive! (It's skirmishes by the way).[/QUOTe

Your death by radiation and burns quote is not accurate as neither is a foregone conclusion.
Radiation after a blast is caused by the debris and dust from the mushroom cloud dropping irradiated particles which then can give anyone surviving a blast radiation sickness,where ever that cloud blows. However, the mushroom and debris in the sky is caused by a groundburst, where the fireball touches the ground. If the explosion is an air burst there is now fallout and therefore no radiation sickness.
Why would an enemy do this? an air burst creates twice the blast and initial destruction which has more chance of nullifying all the defences in place, and it also means that the enemy can then occupy the ground because it is not contaminated.
Using an air burst weapon on N Korea for example might destroy infrastructure and kill those in the immediate blast range but there would no long term threat of radiation poisoning inflicted on the nation or its neighbours.
burns come from being exposed to the initial heat wave if you are in the open when the blast accurs, but anything between you and the blast will protect you, as the 'wall' of heat is extremely hot but very thin. burns after the fact are caused by fires started from gas and elctricity supplies being ruptured and starting fire.

I think you have a very optimistic faith in the accuracy of nuclear weapons that the ensuing fireballs will magically not drag up irradiated matter from the ground regardless of the height of the detonation! I also ask myself (assuming as you say that the area is not heavily irradiated) what would there be left for the "enemy" to occupy other than a radioactive desert; indeed would there be any enemies left with the physical or mental capacity to occupy anything! This I believe is the crux of the matter. Aside from the scale of the physical destruction there will be the unbelievable trauma of coping with the millions of dead and tens of millions of injured people. As has been said: the living will envy the dead. Such will be the feeling of total despair that the number of suicides could well exceed the number of deaths directly attributable to the bomb itself!