Low Information Voter on Nostr: The decay curve for fast fission products is very, very steep. Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...
The decay curve for fast fission products is very, very steep. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were habitable again within days. And those were shockingly inefficient and dirty. Modern weapons leave an order of magnitude less radionuclides per megatonne. Unless you groundburst on purpose.
I don't know what to say about the "nuking themselves" though! An error in the arming mechanism could do that, for sure, although they're usually designed with multiple failsafes.
An interception of a hypersonic warhead, even a partial one, is going to leave a puff of plasma, not a working warhead gone astray. This is also true of conventional warheads if hypersonic. Half-em by vee-squared, you know as well as I do...
I don't know what to say about the "nuking themselves" though! An error in the arming mechanism could do that, for sure, although they're usually designed with multiple failsafes.
An interception of a hypersonic warhead, even a partial one, is going to leave a puff of plasma, not a working warhead gone astray. This is also true of conventional warheads if hypersonic. Half-em by vee-squared, you know as well as I do...