Yes a ground burst creates far more radioactive fallout than an air burst due the the amount of debris and dust which is irradiated, thrown up into the air and then falls back down shortly afterwards. But the explosion blast area is smaller and the ground absorbs and dissipates more of the energy.
Some do. There are both tactical, and strategic nukes. Tactical nukes are as you describe, smaller, more precise for use primarily against military positions, fleets, air bases etc...
Correct. There is a whole scale of sizes from small(ish) tactical nukes which can fit into a standard size 155mm artillery shell right the way up to enormous strategic city killer warheads. A few are even bigger if you include the underwater ones which are designed to create a tsunami. But now the vast majority are the small to medium sized ones and the enormous strategic city killers are much rarer than they used to be during the cold war.
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Yep, and none of those would be fun!
Fair enough. You would probably die from radiation poisoning though.
Unless your house is lined with lead or your walls are several feet thick concrete mixed with boron, it wouldnt make much difference. Gamma Rays will just pass through it, and the Neutrons likely will too. Only way to be in an active fallout zone and not be effected is if you're surrounded by lead and under water. (lead stops gamma, water stops neutrons). It also only takes 2 days for radiation levels to drop by 99% The other 1% can take a long time.
The last 1% is acceptable.Unless your house is lined with lead or your walls are several feet thick concrete mixed with boron, it wouldnt make much difference. Gamma Rays will just pass through it, and the Neutrons likely will too. Only way to be in an active fallout zone and not be effected is if you're surrounded by lead and under water. (lead stops gamma, water stops neutrons). It also only takes 2 days for radiation levels to drop by 99% The other 1% can take a long time.
I have an original copy of that. Will post a photo tomorrow.The last 1% is acceptable.
Sealing off a house to stop dust from entering would stop the vast majority of short range alpha and beta particles. The gamma radiation as you say is more troublesome though as some of that will be able to pass though the walls. There is a scientific mathematical equation to calculate the penetrating effect of gamma radiation. The short of it is though that just three feet of packed dirt (or any other material with the equivalent mass such as piles of books etc) would likely be sufficient to reduce the gamma radiation exposure down to an acceptable level. This can be achieved quite quickly by building a makeshift shelter inside you house using rubble sacks filled with dirt to act as a radiation shield.
To do this you push a sturdy table against a ground floor wall as close to the center of your house as possible to maximize the distance from external walls (due to the inverse square rule increasing the distance from the source considerably reduces the amount of gamma radiation received too). Then build a makeshift wall around the table using the dirt filled rubble sacks like sand bag bricks. Also put a layer or two on top of the table to protect from any gamma radiation coming from above caused by fallout that may land on the roof. Two feet of packed dirt bricks will probably be sufficient as you would also be surrounded by a brick house and have a few meters of distance from where the fallout has settled.
Also bare in mind that modern nuclear missiles will produce less radioactive fallout than what would have been expected to happen if there had been a nuclear exchange back in cold war era. Depending on various factors such as your location relative to nearby targets and the wind direction most people would be able to survive a nuclear exchange simply by staying indoors for two weeks with the windows closed. Unless you are unlucky regarding the wind direction or proximity to a target most people would probably experience only a relatively low level of fallout and radiation exposure.
Nuclear war is a lot more survivable than most people think it is. With just a little bit of knowledge and understanding of the concepts involved you could further increase your odds considerably. If anyone is interested to know more I suggest the book Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson Kearny as an ideal place to start. It’s not the cheeriest of reads ever I admit but it's very interesting nevertheless.
The 2022 edition has some updated sections which cover more modern technology and also Russia and Ukraine. Other than that it's largely unchanged from previous editions. But then why would it need to be? The laws of physics haven't changed since the cold war so the information is still just as relevant as ever.
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The 2022 edition has some updated sections which cover more modern technology and also Russia and Ukraine. Other than that it's largely unchanged from previous editions. But then why would it need to be? The laws of physics haven't changed since the cold war so the information is still just as relevant as ever.
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