what effect has the explosion of atomic bombs had on the environment?

Question

Any animals mutated? If so which ones and how?

trees, plant life, coral, fish? Anything that has been affected by an explosion. Like Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Bikini Atoll, Alamogordo Desert or any other ones!

Answer 1

Both of the cities that were bombed are now heavily populated with human beings. I remember the total population is now about 1.6 million. That is not too bad for ground zero and only 60 years after a blast. As others said mutations is not the issue. The higher the life form is on the food chain the more radiation it intakes. This increases the likely hood of cancer and a shortened life in a higher percentage of the population. Similar to all the people who spend time in tanning booths or on the beach. Life is pretty forgiving. A nuclear blast is dangerous and does shorten lifespans but the overall affects are not as bad as some would like to believe.

Answer 2

It's really not that big of a deal for the US. The earthquake last month caused a tsunami that caused a power outage at the nuclear power plant. The lack of power meant that the nuclear fission which creates the power, which releases a LOT of heat, couldn't be cooled down, which caused leaks in the plant. They'be blocked off the major leak already, but there's still some radiation floating around. They've dumped some radioactive water into the ocean, too. There wasnt any bomb. But even in asia, the level of radiation is very low, almost harmless to people. Eventually, wind and water currents will carry the radiation all over the world, but by then it will have absolutely no effect on people. Chernobyl and the atomic bombs dropped on japan by the US released MUCH more radiation, and we're still all alive and well. Don't worry :)

Answer 3

Mutations of animals as a nuclear bomb effect is pretty much unheard of (atomic bomb does not mean what you think it means).

Besides, radiation is actually not all that good at producing survivable mutations anyway.

The area directly around the blast tends to be pretty badly contaminated although a lot depends on what kind of bomb is tested and how they test it (ground blasts produce more fallout than air blasts and the more of the boom comes from fusion the less fallout is created) with bombs that don't work tending to do more damage because they spread the plutonium around the area instead of spreading it around into near harmlessness.

On the environment on the whole planet it basically hasn't done much.

Answer 4

Yes, Nuclear weapons do cause mutations in living animals. The radiation causes mutations in cells otherwise known as cancer and leukemia.

Answer 5

I think humans have mutated into slobbering idiots.

Answer 6

Don't worry about we have used but the one the Moslem's want to use on us .