[Constitutional Patriot]

"When detonated the radioactive debris is spread over a wide area"

How wide?

[ChemistCat]

That's like asking "How long is a piece of string?" It depends upon winds, amount of radioactive material, power of the bomb itself. Tim McVeigh expected the entire Murrah building to fall from the strength of his truck bomb, and this was reasonable, but he actually did far less damage than he had hoped. I doubt that the terrorists expected the WTC to stand long enough to let anyone out alive, or that the buildings would fall straight down as opposed to crushing the rest of Manhattan when they toppled. A friend of mine whose house was completely destroyed by the F-6 tornado in Del City, Oklahoma found folded laundry still in stacks in the ruins of her house--but the couch the laundry had been on was gone. There is an element of chaos in these things. Dust, including radioactive dust, can be carried around the world if the air currents are running the right way.

[horsewhispersc]

I have 30 miles.