If we nuke Iran will our forces deployed overseas be exposed to radiation??

Question

...Via radioactive fallout or some other vector in harmful doses?? How small of a radioactive dose is harmful?? it has been ascertained in the studies done by government radiation releases over the town of Hanford that small exposures to radiation are likely to have highly adverse effects on the human thyroid gland... frequently resulting in thyroid cancer. Small doses of radiation also may cause a high rate of birth defects... Please try to support your responses with useful information... this is something we should all discuss before advocating use of nuclear force on the middle east with our loved ones deployed in the region. Plus I just really want to know... because I thinks its important.

What could be the extent of the environmental repercussions across the middle east??

I don't mean to say that I advocate nuking Iran... its just that so many people are always crying that a nuke should be dropped whenever we have even a minor disagreement with anyone... In this case it just happened to be Iran and I wondered if people would understand that a nuke is serious business if they realized that it could harm our troops...

but then I really wanted to know... would doing that harm our troops.... I don't doubt it would... but to what extent?? What about the environment?? What about countries and people nearby??

I didn't mention the civilian casualties in my question because any sucker who thinks they can just drop nuclear bombs to solve problems obviously won't be swayed by the suffering of civilians anyways... thats just not how the "just nuke em" mindset thinks... and you can't reach them on that level... because the only reason they so quickly wish to drop a nuke is because they simply don't care about things like that.

Answer 1

Radiation from the Chernobyl accident travelled around the world so no one would be spared the consquences. That is why nuclear testing was stopped. It would be suicide to start a nuclear conflict

Answer 2

The US doesn't need to use nukes on Iran unless they did it first. We are a superpower. They are not inconsequential but they are not really a match for us. That is reality.

That probably doesn't make you feel any better but they would have to be suicidal to nuke our troops.

The studies done you talk about indicate possible harm that is comparable to an X-ray. Entire nations were exposed to vastly more than what would be release by the relatively clean American nukes. The USSR dropped a 50 megaton bomb as a test to intimidate us in 60's. That is thousands of times more dangerous then ours would be. Chernobyl released even more radiation. I don't mean to imply that it is not dangerous or imply that fallout is not a dangerous. It increased the number of people getting Cancer, but it was something like maybe 10% more people would get certain cancers. That is not so significant when you consider the small percentage that get those cancers. The immediate effects of fallout can be deadly, as is the blast, if you are in the wrong spot.

I am more worried that Iran will carry out its threats to Israel or Saudi Arabia 10 or more year from now if something isn't done to prevent a nuclear escalation. I don't mean to imply that the threats to Saudi Arabia are comparable to the threats they make to Israel.

Answer 3

you are already got nuked by mcdonalds and coca cola just look at your growing fat *** it is going to blow up leave the **** out of you.go apply for obama care and food stamp first then talk bs.

Answer 4

Grizz,

The PRK does not have nuclear weapons that can be mounted on any delivery vehicle that can reach the U.S. In fact, they don't even have a delivery vehicle. Also, there one test explosion yielded a misserable 1 kiloton, there are conventional weapons that have a higher yield than this. Heck, one of the 767's that the terrorist flew into the WTC probably had a higher yield.

China has the weapons, but have not declaired the existance of a suitable delivery vehicle yet. Russia, yes they could, if they wanted to be blasted off of the face of the earth.

Answer 5

It takes about 300 Rankin's to get u in trouble there should be info on the Russian power plant and the problems. I don't think the US will use it first and if Iran does look out. I went to school many years ago and the results are bad. The Moslem's hate the Jews and Us even to the sacrifice of there families . If we cannot stop this hate it will happen and u will have true global warming.

Answer 6

i do agree over the guy above...eh....usa alone isnt the only country today to own nuke....every action has its reaction that is the law...you act on it...you will get the reaction either directly or indirectly...
cant we just stay out of it?...live in peace and let others live in peace...
no offense is intended...just want to clear my point....we want PEACE ......nuke is a devastation of mother nature.....dont ruin this beautiful world on some rotten political bases....its a gift...love it...imagine how much we are loved? we all live under the same shelter..we will all suffer the same no matter what....

More over ...lets say . "Doomsday device"...tht sure does kills n destroys .. that would kill every single living being existing around.....not a matter of few years...but might take heck of years to bring back life....the surrounding countries would be infected too...if we go deeper into world geography .....every continent is linked in nature to each other in terms of climatic depressions etc..as i said we all are living under the same shelter..else...not just the troops alone... but every single individual would be infected....hiroshima(hope correct spelling) is a perfect example...abnormal/defected infants born even today.....fact nukes today r much devastating to the core than that 1 used on japan.....i believe...this world will come to an end....if hardly we survive...we gonna live back to the stone age...i pray n wish....if our politics have crossed their limits beyond insanity...atleast we the people together could bring out a better purpose of nuclear energy....for human welfare...i await for that day...

Answer 7

i think of the respond on your question might desire to be 'definite', counting on what number, and what length, nuclear weapons we are speaking approximately. besides the fact that, there is not any way that we are going to nuke Iran. The U.S. may well be kicked out of the UN in a count of days, and Bush may well be impeached. To attack a sovereign us of a with nukes (one which has in no way attacked us) may well be between the worst acts of unprovoked aggression perpetrated with the help of any us of a in history.

Answer 8

I Hope Britain doesn't, the results would be catastrophic.You would have to say goodbye to life as you know it.It would create World War I I I.There are more than enough Suicidal car bombers in their own country to blow theirselves up.So why should we bother to be their enemies .They even consider their own children to be expendable.They are their own worst enemies. A bombs are the super equivalent of a volcano.

Answer 9

You will be exposed to radiation too.

'Cuz if you nuke Iran, North Korea will nuke you, and then China will nuke ... you ... and then Russia will nuke ... you ... and then India and so on, and so on.

The USA isn't the only country with nukes any more.

Answer 10

I wonder about the testing the korea is doing under it's own ground. Would it not be harmful to it's own water and the surounding countries.