[Hot Tabasco]

I was always told that if a nuclear bomb were to detonate, the area would be radiated and uninhabitable for hundreds of years......

Hiroshima is looking pretty good these days.........

[gr8eman]

I hear Hiroshima and Nagasaki are modern cities due to the rebuilding. Does anyone know what remaining effect the bombings had?

[hal ogen]

Anti-nuclear hysteria is just that. Eco-nuts panic over just about anything that doesn’t fit their organic/dream-like existence. ted kennedy killed more people in the US than any nuclear accidents.

[bagman]

Allow me to indulge a pet-peeve. If, as you write, the “area would be radiated,” that means that the land would be emitting some sort of radiation whereas, more properly, a target is irradiated. Look at it this way, the Sun radiates light and the Earth is irradiated by the light.

I thoroughly enjoyed a reporter commenting that the Fukushima accident radiated people. This statement means that people were flying through air with the Fukushima plant as the point of origin. The reporter meant to say that the Fukushima plant “irradiated” people.

Similarly, you meant to write “the area would be irradiated.”

Sorry for being the pedant.