Can a Nuclear war get you if you live in a small town far from big cities?

Answer 1

In a nuclear exchange, the northern hemisphere will be plunged into prolonged agony and barbarity, with 1.1 billion killed in the initial attack (mostly in the US, Russia, Europe, China and Japan). Another 1 billion will die from radiation poisoning. Eventually, the nuclear winter will spread to the southern hemisphere and all plant life will die....soon followed by animal life. Those who survive will be in underground shelters, but they need enough provisions to outlast the nuclear winter....not many will be surviving.

Answer 2

Not if a terrorist sets off a nuke in a major city then you will be safe but if it's all out nuclear war in which thousands of nuclear bombs have exploded all over the world we will then have what is called a "nuclear winter" because of all the dirt thrown into the atmosphere from the bombs will block out the sun. Nothing will grow. There won't be any electricity either because the electronic pulses that Nuke bombs cause will wipe out all power. There will also be a lot of lower level nuclear fall out everywhere and that will cause premature cancers.

You might want to check out a book on Hiroshima or Nagasaki where I believe that only people within a mile of the nuclear blast died because of the bomb.

Answer 3

Hey John! Are you a citizen of South Korea?.........Just joking!


Well, nuclear bombs are dangerous like anything. The radiation emitted after a nuclear explosion are carried by food-chain and trough water cycle to thousands of kilometers.


I am sorry to say, even if you stay in some remote village won' t let you escape from the evil effects of nuclear war.


That's why nations like U.S. India U.K. China South Korea have strongly condemned the nuclear test conducted by North Korea.


A simple nuclear war is enough to ruin 3 to 4 generation as radiations are easily transfered through genes.

Answer 4

Probably not. Nuclear war itself is pretty much an impossibility now. Nuclear war requires missiles to be fired, and the basic fact is they travel too slow to make it anymore. Nuke missiles travel at 18,000 miles per hour. Pretty fast, until you find out that the intercepting missiles travel at just under 186,000 miles per second. Pretty much no way enough missiles can get through to really be a war; one or two might get through, but not enough to really make a big difference in warfare.

The major threat comes from terrorism. One person getting through with a nuke on him and blowing it up. But because he is so small and therefore really untargetable (except by intelligence like the CIA or FBI, but not by military), the terrorist has time to tailor his attack (meaning he can find the big city and won't miss his target since he is right there at the time of the attack). So while big cities have something to worry about still, the small towns don't really have that much to worry about. Nukes may still have technological power, but not enough in speed to matter that much in real war now.

Answer 5

It's possible, some of those bombs get pretty big. Hydrogen bombs, for example. I have heard a blast diameter of 10+ miles is possible, and the radiation causes damage to people much further out than that. I have heard 50, 75, perhaps even 100+ miles is possible for damaging nuclear effects from the bombs that exist today. Then, there is the fallout, which can drift quite a distance.

Answer 6

An all out nuclear war will destroy most of the mammal life on this planet. Insects will survive, they can tolerate much more radiation than mammals. Many sea creatures will survive. The continents would become barren for many years. Small town? Radiation, nuclear winter, no food, and fleeing crazed city people will be the death of you.

Answer 7

Sure. If you live far from where the bombing takes place (assuming it's on big cities), people in the country might have it worse considering the nuclear fallout would cause radioactive induced cancer, deformations and other physiological problems... I imagine it would be a slow and painful death compared to the instantaneous one from the blast itself.

Answer 8

What?! Not unless the radiation goes up into the atmosphere and is carried by the wind currents and is brought back to earth by rain, which is exactly what happens. So, yes, we're all screwed if there's a nuclear war.

Answer 9

If you can, rent and watch "The Day After". It pretty much answers any question you might have about nuclear war (at least full scale nuclear war).

Answer 10

Obviously, it depends on where you are, how many bombs drop across the country, the prevailing winds compared to where the bombs dropped, how it affects the water supplies, etc. But, yes, the physical impact can miss your particular town. However, the societal, emotional, and economic impact of the war will not miss anyone.