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To: WoofDog123
> As far as radiation, yes, hydrogen bombs caused radiation but it was VERY short-lived, from what I have read.

Better read again.

The two bombs dropped on Japan at the end of WWII were fission (uranium), not fusion (hydrogen), and they were NOT clean bombs. We hadn't developed that technology yet.

40 posted on 03/14/2011 10:56:28 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored

I stand corrected. That said, the residual radiation apparently didn’t stick around too long at all based on the numbers I found.


48 posted on 03/15/2011 10:09:34 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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