Fucked up middle east

[Job]

What's this..?

You mean you are telling me there's fighting in the Middle east?

 

[Thorwyn]

[qutoe]How about...we leave the middle east the f*ck alone?

Let them fight, have raudidaudi time, shoot their mothers in the head with a .50 cal rifle and shout "infidel pig!!" at local farmers.

Let's just stay in these here lovely "civilized" countries and let the ragheads(no offense) fight.
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Good idea actually. That´s what we´re doing when Dishis and Tutus are beathig the shit out of each other in a remote province in Congo.
Unfortunately, there´s oil in the Middle East and since we want to continue driving our cars and carrying our food in plastic bags, we can´t help but interfere.

 

[Naetha]

Unlikely

Some of the weapons-grade isotopes have half lives of 500,000 years.

If global nuclear war breaks out, the best thing to do is to be as close to the bombs as possible when they go off.

http://www.is.wayne.edu/mnissani/PAGEPUB/CH2.html

Its not necessarily how long the radiation lasts for, but the maximum doses. The risk (i.e. cancer) vs dosage model was worked out after Hiroshima, but was only able to use Hiroshima as a test base. Using this model, they predicted 9000 deaths directly caused by Chernobyl. So far only 50 have been directly attributed. This is making people reconsider the radiation aspect of both nuclear power and nuclear weapons, where the fear of radiation actually has a more devastating effect than the radiation itself.

Of course, this only takes into account the radiation aspect of a nuclear bomb itself, rather than the associated blast, heat etc that would occur with a normal bomb anyway.

Interesting article from the WHO (World Health Organisation) here:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/index.html

Ooh other thing - the longer the half life, the less radiation is emitted at a time, so isotopes with longer half-lives will emit the same amount of radiation over time as short half-life isotopes will emit in seconds.

 

[Lamp]

How much latent radiation is out there ?

Nuclear Reactor Leaks
Chernobyl (1986)
Mayak (1957)
Windscale (1957, 1973)
Three Mile Island (1979)
Saint-Laurent (1980)
Buenos Aires (1983)

Nuclear Testing types

Countries testing nuclear weapons

Red = USSR (light red for former Soviet republics outside Russia where nuclear weapons were tested, dark red for Russia which is the only former Soviet republics which still has nuclear weapons)
Light blue = USA
Dark blue = France
Purple = UK
Orange = China
Yellow = India
Brown = Pakistan
Green = areas where nuclear devices have been used in different country to that owning them
Grey with question mark denotes the possible Vela incident