hey I'm Mike and if you've played Fallout you know how awesome it is to fight
radioactive mutants in the wasteland
but how dangerous would the nuclear wasteland be on October 23rd 2077 both
started and ended somewhere between most all of the world powers nuclear weapons
were launched driving the world on a dark path of nuclear winter the massive
increase in radioactivity yielded the surface the planet's course with most of
the living creatures view their dead severely burn or mutated and you have to
live in it it's hard to know exactly who was all involved in the Great War you
could tell that whoever was none of them restrain themselves based on the upper
sizes the atomic weapons available today there's no doubt the destruction in Fallout 4
not only can exist but it could easily be surpassable that brings up a
really interesting point how many nuclear weapons would it take to spin the world
into a nuclear winter it's theorized that one hundred the largest cities
across the world were targeted with similarly sized bombs dropped on Japan
in ww2 the firestorm would eject enough soot into the atmosphere causing a reverse
greenhouse effects of your enough to drop the temperature in agricultural
regions by between 20 and 30 degrees Celsius but given the size of the
nuclear weapons designed since then things go from that to worse the Tsar
bomb was detonated in 1961 and was about three thousand three hundred times more
powerful than the one dropped on Japan in ww2 the mushroom cloud was so big it could
easily be seen from a thousand kilometers away shattering windows over
2,500 kilometers away
shock waves were measured even after traveling around the world twice the
heat was so intense anyone within 100 kilometres received third-degree burns
to make it even worse that bomb was dropped from an airplane
modern-day bombs are launched on rockets traveling about 15,000 miles per hour in
a little over 18 minutes in intercontinental ballistic missile can
travel from moscow New York City even at the farthest stretches a missile
traveling at this speed could reach any target on the planet in well under an
hour back to fall out it's easy to assume that since the war started in
2077 the bombs would be much bigger than the ones used in ww2 so we're going
to assume that the bombs are about 2.42 megatons or about the same size as the
ones used by Russia during the cuban missile crisis if the top 100 cities on
the planet were attacked heat with a 2.42 megaton bomb 48 million people
would instantly vaporize and another one hundred and twenty-three million would
follow suit soon after anyone within 20 kilometers of the blast would receive
third degree burns from the 5,000 degree fireball at Ground Zero the crater would
be well over one hundred and twenty two meters deep about one kilometre across
the combined blast would have a total energy of about nine hundred and
thirty-seven quadrillion jewels if this energy was converted purely in the
kinetic energy for the New Horizons spacecraft we sent to Pluto it would've
been traveling 21% the speed of light at that speed it would have reached Pluto
in only 19 hours it took nine and a half years it would literally be traveling so
fast that space would actually bend in time would be slowed
have some of the largest bombs ever created detonated in 100 of the most
populated cities on the planet
what's next atomic weapons were dropped on the surface of the planet things
would be very deadly for a very long time but the point of nuclear weapons
and atomic weapons is not to radiate the ground or the people there it's
destroy things as opposed to a surface detonation atomic weapons are typically
detonated in the air to increase the area of effect but also to decrease the
radiation levels on the surface as the bomb goes off gamma rays are emitted
ripping the electrons from
atoms in the air the pressure wave is so intense it condenses moisture in the
atmosphere forming clouds as the blistering hot air rises it not only
pulls thousands of pounds of dust and smoke to form the mushroom cloud the
newly-formed radioactive isotopes are also pulled with it the radioactive
atoms are then picked up by weather patterns and fall out across the
landscape over time that's why we call this fall out sometime this fall out
occurs over a couple days a couple weeks but sometimes that occurs over a couple
years over a vast distance this is when things get incredibly interesting as
nuclear weapons go off
neutrons are absorbed by other atoms causing them to become unstable
splitting into smaller atoms which then emit more neutrons sometimes he's bi
products also break down into smaller atoms as well as they decay into more
stable forms the rain abdicate depends on the type of isotope some have
half-lives of a few seconds whereas others have half-lives of a few million
years in Fallout there are radioactive mutated animals all over the landscape
weirdly though the super mutants are man-made creatures like the two-headed
cow, the giant scorpions the radioactive beatles those were all caused by
radioactive mutations after the Great War in the same way the high-energy
particles compact out of the air they also impact DNA and living cells when
parts of the cells are destroyed it might replicate this for generating a
mutation if the DNA is too damaged for the portions of the south are critically
damaged in the cell dies think if radiation leaking atomic shock on but
instead of left pallets it should be charged particles and about 60% the
speed of light
although the damage isn't visible you're basically being liquefied at the atomic
level in Fallout robots are not affected by radiation in the real world this
cannot be farther from the truth when a nuclear reactor need to be repaired by
remote control robot is sent into the area then removes the part
tosses it in a corner never to leave ever again
once the robot replaces the missing part it then have to go drive away out of
traffic patterns to make sure that when it does die it doesn't die in an area
that might need to be accessible by other robots basically anything that
enters a nuclear reactor or one of the highly radioactive zones never going to
see the light of day ever again if irradiation kills robots then what about
you
the Explorer well if robots or circuitry in a robot then there's no chance that
you're gonna make it out alive if you're exposed to that much radiation luckily
for you you actually exists the vault two hundred years after the explosions
basically any radioactive isotope with a half-life below thirty years would have
decayed down to only one percent of its original amount and isotope for less than
20 years would be down to only about one-tenth of one percent of its original
amount two hundred years is a pretty long time most of the surface would be
habitable again except obviously near the crator and where heavy isotopes
with longer half-lives would still remain in high concentrations I'm sure
by now you're wondering about the irradiated humans in the Fallout
universe their goules which are basically mutated humans who have become immune to
radiation in real life there's no chance of survival
like Cecil Kelly who is a chemical operator working with a plutonium mixing
take when he switched on the stirrer
the tank formed vortex and the liquid went critical releasing a deadly
blast of neutrons and gamma radiation that only lasted two hundred
microseconds he died only 35 hours later
radiation is a deadly state of matter but to be fair there really safe ways to
use it and it could be really really important to the future of how we
operate as a civilization so don't let fallout scare you so anyways you enjoy
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