Fallout is the condition following a nuclear bomb or reactor blowing up when radioactive particles and gases fall from and spread throughout the atmosphere. Nuclear fallouts have major negative health impacts on humans in the area. Because the design details of enemy nuclear weapons are unknown and could not be discussed in this document in any case the committee cannot provide quantitative estimates.
The health effects resulting from attacks with conventional weapons on nuclear weapon storage facilities depend on the detailed design of the nuclear weapons being attacked. Depending on the distance they were from the explosion people were burned with first second and third degree burns. One of the horrors the victims lived through was flash burns.
The atomic bomb did not only alter the environment it detonated it altered the people who survived it as well. 40 50 of total energy. In most cases the energy released from a nuclear weapon detonated within the lower atmosphere can be approximately divided into four basic categories.
The effects of a nuclear explosion on its immediate vicinity are typically much more destructive and multifaceted than those caused by conventional explosives. The prompt effects of a nuclear explosion and fallout are well known through data gathered from the attacks on. Nuclear weapons are fundamentally different from conventional weapons because of the vast amounts of explosive energy they can release and the kinds of effects they produce such as high temperatures and radiation.
Nuclear weapon nuclear weapon the effects of nuclear weapons. The medical effects of the atomic bomb on hiroshima upon humans can be put into the four categories below with the effects of larger thermonuclear weapons producing blast and thermal effects so large that there would be a negligible number of survivors close enough to the center of the blast who would experience prompt acute radiation effects which were observed after the 16 kiloton yield.
