Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals?

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Waryle@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I live 2000km from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is not comparable to a nuclear bomb. Chernobyl is a reactor, made to release a steadily amount of radiations for years to make electricity.

Chernobyl irradiated a large area because the graphite that was located in the reactor core has burned, and the fumes have been carried by the wind, taking a lot of high-level activity nuclear waste hundred or thousands of kilometers away.

A bomb is way smaller than a reactor, and is designed to release most of its energy instantly to make the biggest explosion possible. That means a short burst of radioactivity very high level of radioactivity, with a very small half-life.

A few days after a bomb explodes, most of the radiations would have depleted.

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