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Fallout: It's What's for Breakfast! |
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by the mutant via The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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13 Oct 2005
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The estimated unprotected local total fallout dosage in Champaign County in a general nuclear war for one week would range from 6,000 to 15,000 roentgens. The LD50 for radiation is generally considered to be in the range from 400 to 600 roentgens/day.
So bend over and kiss your ass goodbye, Champaign, St. Joseph, Mahomet, Rantoual, Tolono, and Urbana.
Nuclear weapons won't make you any safer. They just make death more efficient. |
The Original Nuclear Nightmare
By Jonas Siegel
Would any part of the United States have emerged unscathed from a full-scale nuclear war? A newly declassified report reveals that the Federal Emergence Management Agency (FEMA) investigated that very question in 1986. Relying on data from the FEMA report, the Bulletin has compiled a state-by-state, county-by-county fallout map revealing just how frightening the "day after" could have been for Americans.
http://www.thebulletin.org/pdf/061_005_033.pdf
For a discussion on LD50 rates for radiation exposure:
http://www.ieer.org/ensec/no-4/main.html |
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Those FEMA Planning Wizards |
by the mutant
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13 Oct 2005
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I was looking at the map linked above. The weirdest thing is that Washington, DC is in the zone at lowest risk for fallout -- less than a 3,000 roentgen in a week.
Does FEMA really think -- in the event of a massive nuclear exchange that leaves large parts of the US so radioactive from fallout that it kills anyone exposed -- that DC itself will escape becoming a glowing, radioactive cinder? Merely get a relatively 'light' dusting of fallout?
I guess that certainly explains the whole miscalculation in New Orleans. These people are not playing with a full deck. |
