by LuckyLucy 27 Replies latest jw friends
New York Times
We will be nuked!Most people will be killed instantly and the rest will have a slow painful death.
What would you do if this was true.Would you scramble around and try to build something to protect you?Or would you just do something you always wanted(skydive or whatever turns you on)Or would you eat all your favorite foods?
I think I would go sailing out on the ocean and think about what a great life I had.I would bring my loved ones and of course all my favorite foods.
Hi Lucy: WOuld you post or email me the link to this story? Or was this post an illustrative point? I am curious because my next post deals with what to do if terrorists do nuke a city. Thanks.
Well, to make a quick point. The type or Nukes available to a terrorist/Saddam would more likely be of the fission type (unless stolen from the Soviets) and thus would be on the Hiroshima scale of things and not Bikini Island....so not all is lost.
I'd stop thinking like a dub and know that all will go on. Perhaps it will be mad-max style, but life will persist. If now, Who am I to worry, I'll be dead in 24 hrs :)
Amazing..This is a illustrative point.I am very intrested in your post on what to do if a city is nuked.I am getting more and more worried because im watching CNN.They are saying that they know for sure that some people are going to do some suicide bombing in the US.I think they will do anything at this point.
Crazy...Yeah but what would you do if they were from the Soviet??
I would go to Fresno and visit Crazy and Truthseeker
Hey, I'm in Fresno, too!!! (Truthseeker, how come you never emailed me back???)
BUTTTTT I would be busy with my family so don't anybody call me.
Lisa
PS a Fresno group is going out to lunch next week....anybody else wanna go?
In 24 hours it'll be exactly the same! Stop worrying, LuckyLucy!
Well if it was the Soviet type it would be ugly. But also, remember that the Soviet/U.S. nukes are designed to detonate in the air, not on the ground, as the ground will absorb alot of the blast. If you want to see what a nuke could do to your city, there is a PBS site that does nuke calculations...let me try to find it....
Either way, Ruby would cruise thru and we'd have a party so not all would be lost :)
PART I The Mechanics of Nuclear Explosions |
Compared with the immediate colossal destruction suffered in target areas, the more subtle, longer term effects of the remaining 10 percent of the energy released by nuclear weapons might seem a matter of secondary concern. But the dimensions of the initial catastrophe should not overshadow the after-effects of a nuclear war. They would be global, affecting nations remote from the fighting for many years after the holocaust, because of the way nuclear explosions behave in the atmosphere and the radioactive products released by nuclear bursts.
When a weapon is detonated at the surface of the earth or at low altitudes, the heat pulse vaporizes the bomb material, target, nearby structures, and underlying soil and rock, all of which become entrained in an expanding, fast-rising fireball. As the fireball rises, it expands and cools, producing the distinctive mushroom cloud, signature of nuclear explosions.
The altitude reached by the cloud depends on the force of the explosion. When yields are in the low-kiloton range, the cloud will remain in the lower atmosphere and its effects will be entirely local. But as yields exceed 30 kilotons, part of the cloud will punch into the stratosphere, which begins about 7 miles up. With yields of 2-5 megatons or more, virtually all of the cloud of radioactive debris and fine dust will climb into the stratosphere. The heavier materials reaching the lower edge of the stratosphere will soon settle out, as did the Castle/Bravo fallout at Rongelap. But the lighter particles will penetrate high into the stratosphere, to altitudes of 12 miles and more, and remain there for months and even years. Stratospheric circulation and diffusion will spread this material around the world.
n nuclear explosions, about 90 percent of the energy is released in less than one millionth of a second. Most of this is in the form of the heat and shock waves which produce the damage. It is this immediate and direct explosive power which could devastate the urban centers in a major nuclear war.