nuclear war

[Skean Dhude]

Two weeks. Obviously BS. People can die within minutes if the dose is high enough.

When a nuke goes off, depending on the yield, you have a ball of plasma where everything gets vaporised. Just outside that you get burnt to a cinder moving away for a much later area where you get sun like tempratures rushing away from the blast. Further away you get reducing tempratures and intense winds for quite a distance. Houses, etc, get blown away literally and you will be a twig caught up in that. Radiation is carried along with that.

Whilst that is still ongoing the heat carries the radiation up into the air and then leaves it in the atmosphere for the wind to spread around as it wants. This drops from the atmosphere and can cover thousands of square miles.

The radiation decreases the further you get away from the blast but can still kill you. Reduced radiation that is fatal can be hundreds of miles away. Smaller radiation doses doesn't mean survival either it just means a slower agonising death from cancers etc. Sterilisation, gene corruption so your children have mutations, cancer is a mutation.

Even if you are in a bunker you need to come out eventually. Radiation can still be there in fatal doses 50 years later.

We don't want any nukes thank you. I've made the decision I can't survive a full nuclear war so I have enough for a limited issue where I can be indoors for a year and after that I have to come out no matter what. I can't wait 50 years. I wonder if I will ever be looking at a Geiger counter knowing it is above a fatal dose but having no choice but for us to leave. Not a nice thought.

My only bit of satisfaction is that Putin and Xi know where the bunkers for our leaders are. Several bunker buster nukes on those sites would make me feel a tad better looking at that meter.