Quote Originally Posted by gunnyrob View Post
Don't forget that a lot of the soviet tests were done directly upwind of various siberian villages so they could study the long term effects.

Different era, different values
Yeah dead right - forgive the pun. Plenty of A-bomb tests in the 1950s were watched by soldiers and scientists completely unaware they were too close. Marie Curie herself, the discoverer of radioactivity died from radium poisoning and we celebrate this great scientist. As we should.

There is a lot of nonsense generated about nuclear bombs and by association, nuclear reactors. Yes hydrogen bombs (fusion) are nasty. The devices exploded at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fission devices which translates to not much bang and lots of radioactive particles. The Chernobyl explosion and the Fukushima meltdown were fission reactions.

I was going to set out the staged effects of a nuclear bomb but lets leave that for another time. What is interesting is the real world. Plants and insects live today at the bomb sites in Japan as well as at Trinity Point in New Mexico. These places were predicted to be barren and sterile for hundreds of years but nature overcomes our direst predictions. Animals - indeed people, have returned to Chernobyl.

Radioactivity can be deadly but it can also be understood and literally washed away.

Be not afraid.