[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

Depending on windspeed on the day in particular, and the size of the bomb. But, a fairly conservative estimate for a sizable bomb (1 megaton or so, ground-burst [the dirtiest]) is 500 miles downwind. Now that’s not saying that you won’t get any radioactive fallout, but it won’t reach lethal levels.

[Travis McGee]

“I’m not saying we won’t get our hair mussed up, but 10-20 million tops, depending on the breaks.”

Gen. Buck Turgidson, the George C. Scott character in Dr. Strangelove