If someone sets of a nuculer bomb how do we all die?

La5all3

Quickly, if we are lucky.
It would be better to be near ground zero, than to deal with the aftermath. (Radiation sickness, nuclear winter, martial law-if any government survives, starvation, etc.)

jeeper_peeper321

Well, there have been over 700 nuclear bombs detonated above ground in the last 50 years.

Were still all here aren't we ?

andrew r

Well if we first assume that you mean if someone lets off a bomb and we are in range of it,

Depends

within very very close proximity being that close to a point that is briefly as hot as the sun's heart will just vapourise you instantly youd never know

Beyond that a combination of the immense radiation heat and blast wave would probably just kill/smash you in almost no time

Beyond that Set on fire by heat shattered by blast parts of one less of the other + having a builiding fall on you maybe

The ones who dont die directly as part of the blast are the unlucky ones, assuming you avoid being blinded by the flash the odds are good that youll take lethal radiation poisioning if your lucky itll kill you in days,

less lucky weeks

really unlucky years due to cancers

even if the blast itself dosnt kill you hanging around would be bad due to the highly radioactive fallout that will come down and make the whole area hazardous to live in for years (being out in black rain not a good idea)

IF you mean Geopolitically if a nuclear weapon goes off somewhere, then probably if it targets or is thought to target another nuclear power they might just react by counterstriking against the enemy and if enough nuclear weapons go off then even if you dont get killed by the bombs or the fallout the dust and such from the blasts could cover enough of the world so as to act as a shield causing Long term cooling and an iceage as the heat escapes but no new heat gets in causing temperatures to fall dramatically,

Mordent

If you don't die in the nuclear explosion itself then;

You could die from radioactive fallout which could either give you radiation sickness bad enough to kill you, or could give you radiation burns bad enough to kill you.

You could die from the injuries you got from the explosion

You could die from starvation or exposure as the infrastructure of your country would be destroyed by a nuclear strike

In the long term the radiation could give you cancer

Solitaire

Those who aren't immediately incinerated by the heat, will eventually die from radiation poisoning. Others will develop various cancers and have children with major birth defects, ie Chernobyl. Depends on proximity to "ground zero"

Mr. Morden

The best place to be, if you;re going to be killed by the bomb anyway, is right next to it when it goes off. That way death will be virtually instantaneous.

John L

If you're close enough you'll incinerate.. If a little father away, you will basically raost to death. If farther away, you'll probably die due to the force of wind, debris, suffer severe burns, and if all that doesn't kill you, radiation poisoning. Father out from that, your main enemy is the radiation.

Ted T

Depends how close you are but their are two places that are lucky. The first is to be so close you are vapourised and therefore feel nothing or a long way upwind where you survive. Those in between die at varying speeds from all sorts of nasty things.
Depends on how many bombs are used as to whether we all die. A good old film to see is "On the Beach." which covers the last days of out dieing world. Scary.

dark_hellbent_king

I hate to have such a short answer but the truth is my spelling isn't the best and i hate writing long answers, but i do have a link about nuclear bombs and there effects, there is also a FAQ about anti-radiation pills(potassium iodide) that you might find interesting as well.

http://www.radshelters4u.com/index3.htm

Midway 56

If you are quite close to the bomb then it will instantly disintegrate you. A bit farther away then the extreme winds created by the blast will get you as they flatten everything around and farther away the radiation fallout will poison you. That's a condensed version but that's how it would be. (As if the bomb was dropped from an airplane.)

briang731/ bvincent

We simply stop breathing. All stupid people should try it !

Brian C

Depends on your proximity to 'ground zero' and the prevailing winds. Also depends on how many megatons the warhead happens to be.

PAUL C

Some quickly, (vaporised) Some slowly. (poisoned)

james k

it just depends on where you are located in relation to the blast and the type of bomb used. a neutron bomb will leave structures somewhat intact and kill people with some form of radiation, while other bombs are made to have devistating "shock and awe", so to speak but are relatively "clean", as far as radiation.

but leaving neutron bomb out of equation and going with a typical BIG hydrogen bomb....let me put it to you this way. if you live in a major U.S metropolitan area and hear that a fleet of ICBM's are heading our way from....oh lets say russia. you have 8 minutes to climb up on the roof and see an amazing light show before it's allllll over.

but if say some terrorist group got their hands on some small "dirty" bomb or a small a-bomb, i doubt if you or many others do die. but if you did it would probably be from radiation sickness or some disease, (cancer), from being exposed to less than lethal doses of radiation.

addendum: BIG hydrogen bomb, (fusion not fission). first comes the blast and inital shock wave. anyone within a couple of miles is vaporived. shock wave spreads out with amazing force toppling everything in it's path. heat generated from fusion burns anything it comes in cotact with to a crisp. this goes on about 8 to 10 miles i guess. somewhere after that things quit falling over and quit catching on fire. however, fires rage in the aftermath. i'm just guessing on the distances but you get the idea.

then comes the radiation. anyone in the area mentioned above is already dead if they are still alive somehow. lethal doses of radiation are carried out from the blast but are eventuelly spread by weather and such.

UGH....there is no way to put out the fires that are raging in the bombs aftermath. smoke radiaton are billowing up everywhere. resources overwhelmed, dead and dying everywhere.........ugh.......sigh..........

mikey196046

It makes a loud boom and will bust your ear drums. So make sure you cover your ears!

*****

If you are close enough to the blast, you could just vaporize. Those further away will die a slow death and painful death due to radiation poisoning and undergo cellular mutation in their bodies [cancer]. Disease and sickness will be rampant. Those in shelters will eventually die from starvation, because there will be nothing left to eat after their food supply is exhausted. There will be no medical care, or any type of services. It will be worse than living in a jungle. It will get to a point where man will eat man in order to survive just a couple of days more. It will be chaos and pandemonium.

jake

I hope everyone prays that motherbear is wrong about that idea of auto activation by sensors! Who would be that insane to use such a device? I know, I know george bush! Most deaths in the world will be slow agonizing deaths from either radiation poisoning or lack of water or food! Fallout radiation deaths can be a week to two weeks, deprivation deaths can be as short as two days from lack of water! But anyone that is exposed to a neutron bomb then death could be in seconds just from the radiation exposure.

MotherBear1975

Pretty much, if one country sets one off, the others have triggers that automatically launch theirs (if its in the tremor radius... there's some kind of sensors that can tell the difference between a blast and an earthquake...)... One nuke would trigger a Nuke Holocaust.

don c

We die quickly.

President Bush and Bin Laden make apolopgies to one another and split the worlds cash

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