What kind of effect does nuclear weapons have on the environment?

Question

I was wondering if anyone could tell me some specifics about environment affects caused by nuclear weapons... thanks a lot.

Answer 1

There is a lot of radioactive waste in the production of weapons. the nuclear waste destroys living organisms or causes weird mutations, which means the eco-system is thrown out of balance and often what humans consider a wasteland is created, because nature takes eons to self heal from nuclear radiation. There is also a lot of pollution that is created from the metal castings, but that is also true for anything metal castings, especially in the automotive industry.

Answer 2

I assume you are asking about the effects caused by radiation. You may be surprised to learn that the effects are very short lived and beneficial. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only populated areas where nuclear weapons have been used, 60 years after the bombs both cities have populations of 1 million or more and have a reduced rate of cancer. It turns out that small doses of radiation have a beneficial affect on people. That's why doctors use radiation therapy to treat cancer. So all that baloney by the no nukes is just that, baloney. They claim that nuclear weapons will destroy an area and make it uninhabitable for thousands of years but the empirical evidence shows otherwise.

Answer 3

That depends on how many, how big, and other factors like at what altitude they are detonated, and over what type of terrain.

Most nuclear weapons are designed to detonate at a relatively low altitude, and are less than 250 kilotons in size. The use of MIRVs guarantees enormous temperatures in the blast area which will carry smoke and radioactive isotopes, as well as soot and ash high into the atmosphere, to be distribute downwind. Radioactive iodine and strontium are taken up in the human body and deposited in the thyroid and bone respectively. Other isotopes cause genetic mutation in both flora and fauna.

If enough weapons are detonated, the ash , smoke, and soot are swept around the world and some degree of nuclear winter occurs.

Answer 4

None. Or total, depending on how you look at it.

Within the primary blast radius, there is no more environment left after a nuclear detonation.

Outside that primary blast radius, it cause every living thing to suffer radiation poisoning, and most living things die from it. The radioactivity remains in the soil and water for decades, or centuries depending on the strength of the warhead.

Answer 5

i'm satisfied Laird C and that i did not serve on an same sub. chilly fusion, except for some benchtop oddities, is a humbug. Fusion produces notably a lot less radioactive textile than fission besides the indisputable fact that it can nonetheless be huge if there have been ever an complete blown change.

Answer 6

No affect until you drop them on some islamo facist nut case country. Talk about sudden global warming....

Answer 7

Absoutely none, when they're just sitting in a bunker like they have been for the last few decades

Answer 8

it turns the air temp to 10,000 degrees in less than 1 second

Answer 9

if used a bad one. if not then a good one. because it keeps those communist ninjas at bay.