There is still no common measures with an explosion such the one which occured in Tchernobyl (i'm not sure it spells like that in english).
And indeed, the bomb itself might be radioactive but not all the surroundings.
But i didn't know about Bikini atoll. It was a military zone in which were conducted nuclear tests, isn't it ?
Maybe not only neutron bombs were used there, and their number must have been very huge.
> A single bomb that spreads radioactive material > through the atmosphere could kill all of us.
H-bomb is not like a nuclear reactor. It doesn't content a lot of dangerous materials. Thus, such a bomb doesn't make the place where it explodes uninhabitable for a long time. In fact, the explosion itself generate a large amount of neutrons and gamma photons which kill and burn to death anything living within its range (exept, maybe, scorpios...).
However, the very materials around are not really affected. They are a bit irradiated by the explosion but they remains totally usable by people after a few days. Of course, everything which is where the bomb explode is destroyed but the surroundings are only affected by radiations when the bomb is exploding. In fact, the country might be empty after the bomb explosion, but fairly inhabitable..
Though, a nuclear reactor rejects a radioactive isotope of iodine among other fission wastes. And this iodine is what make such an explosion far more dangerous than an atom bomb. Such radioactive elements are used by human body in the same way as stable one. Thus, they irradiate the organ which has used them...
Moreover, a genetically engineered virus is far more dangerous, because it can spread in a totally random and unpredictable way, and may very well destroy all humanity (think about Twelve Monkeys...) far more easily than an atom bomb. Of course several atom bomb should be able to do so quite easily too.
I think that two galaxies may collide whithout the stars among them colliding.
There is such a space between stellar objects that they can almost be considered as ponctual objects, so that the probability for two of them to be at the same place at the same time is quite small.
In fact, there might be no changes for us to expect, except (nice anagram) the stars relative position from our point of view...
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There is still no common measures with an explosion such the one which occured in Tchernobyl (i'm not sure it spells like that in english).
And indeed, the bomb itself might be radioactive but not all the surroundings.
But i didn't know about Bikini atoll. It was a military zone in which were conducted nuclear tests, isn't it ?
Maybe not only neutron bombs were used there, and their number must have been very huge.
> A single bomb that spreads radioactive material > through the atmosphere could kill all of us. H-bomb is not like a nuclear reactor. It doesn't content a lot of dangerous materials. Thus, such a bomb doesn't make the place where it explodes uninhabitable for a long time. In fact, the explosion itself generate a large amount of neutrons and gamma photons which kill and burn to death anything living within its range (exept, maybe, scorpios...). However, the very materials around are not really affected. They are a bit irradiated by the explosion but they remains totally usable by people after a few days. Of course, everything which is where the bomb explode is destroyed but the surroundings are only affected by radiations when the bomb is exploding. In fact, the country might be empty after the bomb explosion, but fairly inhabitable.. Though, a nuclear reactor rejects a radioactive isotope of iodine among other fission wastes. And this iodine is what make such an explosion far more dangerous than an atom bomb. Such radioactive elements are used by human body in the same way as stable one. Thus, they irradiate the organ which has used them... Moreover, a genetically engineered virus is far more dangerous, because it can spread in a totally random and unpredictable way, and may very well destroy all humanity (think about Twelve Monkeys...) far more easily than an atom bomb. Of course several atom bomb should be able to do so quite easily too.
I think that two galaxies may collide whithout the stars among them colliding. There is such a space between stellar objects that they can almost be considered as ponctual objects, so that the probability for two of them to be at the same place at the same time is quite small. In fact, there might be no changes for us to expect, except (nice anagram) the stars relative position from our point of view...