Message from @Mal
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long term it also matters
which is why you take the pills
If the dose rate 1 hour after an explosion is 1000 R/hr, it would take about 2 weeks for the dose rate to be reduced to 1 R/hr solely as a result of radioactive decay. Weathering effects will reduce the dose rate further,' for example, rain can wash fallout particles from plants and houses to lower positions on or closer to the ground. Surrounding objects would reduce the radiation dose from these low-lying particles.
Within two weeks after an attack the occupants of most shelters could safely stop using them, or could work outside the shelters for an increasing number of hours each day. Exceptions would be in areas of extremely heavy fallout such as might occur downwind from important targets attacked with many weapons, especially missile sites and very large cities. To know when to come out safely, occupants either would need a reliable fallout meter to measure the changing radiation dangers, or must receive information based on measurements made nearby with a reliable instrument.
the point I'm trying to make is that if human life is rendered unsustainable, you'll only be prolonging the inevitable. If we go by the assumption that nuclear winter is impossible, then I am happy to agree with you that it does indeed matter.
ok that is fine, the problem i have is that the effects of the weapons have been exagerated and people believe that things are hopeless when there are small steps you can take to protect yourself
I am perfectly happy to assume the medicine does what science has established it does, so you don't have to quote the study on this for my sake. I would probably stock up on it myself, if things turn more dire in the near future.
in global poltics that is
I think that is a perfectly valid way to look at the situation @Deleted User
fair enough
but if you see a mushroom cloud and it is smaller than your thumb...
I honestly have no idea what the strength of currently employed nuclear weapons are, or if they could indeed cause a nuclear winter, or even how many of them would be launched. I just thought the absurdity of the imagery of popping a pill against a shockwave was funny
totally agree that if you're just exposed to radiation, it would be wiser to use than not
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Scott Manley made (and is still ongoing I think) a series on The Science of Nuclear Bombs.
One of the things he points out is, how hard it is to make larger bombs. Basically, if the nuclear fuel gets vaporized and blasted away before it can detonate, it's all wasted.
So smaller nuclear bombs are more efficient.
One of the tricks is to wrap the fissile material into some very heavy metal. By sheer inertia, it keeps the nuclear material confined for "longer" so more of it can undergo fission.
when the last megaton bombs are dismantled, nuclear winter will probably be impossible
don't know what the sizes of the ones in Pakistan and North Korea are, but I don't think it's megaton+ since they've spent a relatively long time developing something as simple as what they have
unorganic chemistry professor I had at university called the NK scientists retarded, because of how long it took them to figure out how to make a basic nuke, lol
I think it was mostly the enrichment of uranium they had trouble with
He's probably a retard.
I still don't think NK developed shit, it was all supplied by Russia.
And it's not just the enrichment, making it go boom is also hard.
See the already mentioned series by Scott Manley.
He goes through all the known details about the early nuclear devices, then how they evolved.
There's even some bullshit on how to create a specific shape with explosive charges, using explosives of different detonation speeds, so all the shockwaves hit the nuclear material at the same time with a spherical shape.
Even on this first video, he talks about how some neutrons are just "too fast" to create a chain reaction.
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`I brought up the subject of painkillers with my gynecologist weeks before my surgery. She said that I would be given ibuprofen. “Is that it?” I asked. “That’s what I take if I have a headache. The removal of an organ certainly deserves more.”
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well, gee, what an excellent argument
that's all she has to say on the subject - american warehouse stores sell them in tubs, so therefore they are not problematic