if people was to say survive a atomic bomb what would happen to them?

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2009-09-27 05:30:40 +0000	It depends on how close they were to the bomb. If they were within 3 miles of the blast wave, they'd be instantly incinerated. If they were between 5 and 10 miles away from the impact, look forward to serious cancer within the next year. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

2009-09-27 07:41:54 +0000	Watch the old TV show called The Day After. A high-yield nuke blast has a predicted death rate starting at 100 percent within a few miles, and then reducing in bands of about 10 percent every 10 miles away from the center of the explosion. If you're 50 miles away, you might survive initially, but if it's a big H-bomb, from around 10 to 20 megatons, it would still probably destroy your house from the shock wave. You could survive that by hiding in the storm cellar. Once you climb out of the storm cellar, you'd be exposed to large amounts of radiation, expecially if there was an explosion upwind of you. If there was an upwind explosion, your home would be contaminated by fallout. The only safe place to go would be somewhere protected from fallout. That would mean stay underground, probably. Eventually some mad band of survivalists would probably discover your hideout and kill you. For people who weren't around when the finger was on the nuclear button, the things they give you to be afraid of nowadays are nothing by comparison. Back then, the entire world could be instantly destroyed in a matter of hours, even by accident. Now it's terrorists and the swine flu, which combined to kill maybe 200 Americans last year. From everybody to a few hundred and somehow people are still scared. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

2009-09-27 05:58:50 +0000	They would eventually die. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

2009-09-27 05:33:15 +0000	OR. what about hydrogen bombs??????????? only 200x more powerful! OMFG lol Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

2009-09-29 13:11:54 +0000	if they were close enough to see it then they would probably be contaminated with radiation. Otherwise it'd be the mushroom cloud of radiation that would be left after wards. and that would contaminate the soil, ground, water, ect... Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

2009-09-27 05:32:12 +0000	The lucky ones would die in a direct hit. Those who were very close but lived would have severe burns. People for miles around would develop cancer within a few years, maybe months. You can't be exposed to that much radiation and come out untouched. The area where the bomb hit would be unlivable for decades. (Like Chernobyl) Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

2009-09-27 07:03:26 +0000	IT ALL DEPENDS ON HOW FAR THEY WERE FROM THE BLAST. IF THEY WERE CLOSE TO THE BLAST CHANCES ARE THEY WILL DIE OF RADIATION. IF THEY WERE FAR AWAY BUT WENT TO A RADIATED AREA THEY WILL PROBABLY EXPERIENCE THE SAME. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

2009-09-27 05:32:06 +0000	it depends entirely on their exposure. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

2009-09-27 05:32:46 +0000	google "hiroshima, nagasaki survivors". also, research the navajo desert, and the effects of the US nuclear weapons test had on the natives. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No