Atomic Bombs from WWII

[Papewaio]

As for effects on the world caused by radiation etc., I have to disagree with the people who claim it is as if it never happened today. For example all metals in the entire world today are still affected by the radiation from the nukes of 1945, and this has forced people to take metal from - guess what - the scuttled Hochseeflotte at Scapa Flow, which hasn't been affected by the radiation because the metal was below water at the time.

Do you have any links for this? It doesn't look at all accurate. I'm pretty sure that outside the immediate vicinity of the bombs that the world's supply of metals were uneffected. Alpha radiation cannot even penerate the skin, Beta radiation is just electrons or positrons so they can only penetrate so far, while Gamma rays just overpenetrate everything and won't cause that much damage even if they can peneratre the entire earth, they have a definite drop in intensity just like ordinary . And that the natural background radiation in many parts of the world are higher then Nagasaki or Hiroshima.

So I find it highly doubtfull that 'all metals in the entire world today are still affected by the radiation from the nukes of 1945'.

There were also noticeable weather effects for the decade following upon the nukings.

Likewise, I find a paucity of information to back up this assertion.

Furthermore, the death caused by nuke was more horrible than any death that could be caused by regular bombs, with the skin being peeled off the victims and falling off. The nukes of such detonation power are also horrible weapons due to the fact that their only possible use is to cause mass murder of civilian targets, not elimination of military targets. So while the first nuke over Hiroshima might have been understandable, we should at the same time, when the subject is up for discussion, remember that any usage of nukes in our modern world, would result in a disaster. Modern nukes are several hundred times more powerful than those used back in ww2, and once one country starts using nukes all countries will soon use them, with the result being a nuclear winter, probably death to all of mankind. It's probable that even a single one of, or only a dozen, of the heaviest of the modern nukes, would cause so severe environmental destruction that it'll be impossible to live on earth afterwards.

I disagree with the idea that dieing from a nuke is any worse then dieing from an incendiary or shrapnel bomb, in fact being turned to ions instantly versus being naplamed I would chose the prior. The primary difference is long term damage and the amount killed per bomb.

Considering the amount of atmospheric H-bombs detonated, I find it hard to believe that they did not cause more enviromental destruction then the ones dropped on Japan. Yet there isn't much data saying the bombs have had that much effect.

As for the power of nukes it is in their radioactive residue that there is something to fear. There collective power after all is less then that of a decent earthquake.