can a nuclear bomb cause mutasion?

Question

like if it happened

Answer 1

the fallout can. the nuclear bomb produces such a combination of devastating damages to the organism, that it prevents it from further life.

Most of the radioactivity-induced mutations are the devastating ones, starting cancer or damaging the protein production.

Answer 2

Studies have been done on the survivors of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end hostilities with Japan at the end of World War II. Quite a few of those survivors were pregnant at the time of the attacks. For those who survived the initial blasts and the horrors immediately following, many gave birth to apparently healthy children. Those survivors and their children have been studied and their genetic material has been examined. Depending on which study you read, you will find that either no "mutations" have been found or that a very tiny increase in the number of mutations have been found. However, there is definitely not a bunch of deformed Japanese people who were born after being exposed to the bombs while still in the womb. And there is definitely not a bunch of deformed Japanese people who were born from parents who were exposed to the bombs before conception.

Answer 3

I work in nuclear power. Radiation causes damage to the gentic structure. This can cause any number of side effects. In the majority of cases the affected tissue dies. However in some cases the tissue either harmlessly mutates or becomes a harmful mutation (cancer). The issue here is that every single cell is taken into account, so you are much more likely to simply get cancer than to get a beneficial mutation. Since that beneficial mutation would only affect that single cell and not your overall gentic blueprint.

If you happened to affect a reproductive cell in that way, and then managed to reproduce using said altered cell, then yes, you could get mutation. However that mutation could be beneficial, or detrimental, depending on what happened. A Baby born without lungs, would not be considered a beneficial mutation.

So the answer is yes, except it's all a bad mutation for the vast majority. .0000001% might find it beneficial.

Answer 4

I see you have probably seen The Hills Have Eyes. Only those who have access to classified documents can really know whether mutations would occur. But basic information has been released that the radiation could cause like cancer and internal things that can cause damage. and like the guy above said, any physical mutation would be caused by pre birth defects.

Answer 5

The radioactivity of the fallout clouds have caused cell mutations in people like in Chernoble and Japan resulting inn them getting some form of cancer.

Answer 6

Not likely.

Radiation burns and radiation sicknesses cause deformities, but not mutations.

To be a mutation, it needs to be genetic.

Answer 7

yes, but mostly in the form of cancer. any sci-fi mutation(superpowers, ten eyes, no mouth) would all have to be caused pre-birth by residual radiation.

Answer 8

no it cant because there is no such thing as mutasion

Answer 9

no and you cant blame bad spelling onto the effects of nucleat weapons as well :-P