They are real. That conspiracy theory is retarded. If you have base access (an incredible percentage of Americans do), you can visit the Trinity Test Site with a geiger counter any day they're not using it for bombing practice. If you dont, they have it open a couple times a year for any rando tourist to visit.
Few people do because White Sands is in the ass end of nowhere, but this is easy to debunk yourself.
Even if you dont have base access, trinity is open twice a year to the public
And even if you dont have base access, it's not hard to get by proxy. Active duty, GS, contractors, veterans, and their dependants have it. And they can generally chaperone anyone they want.
People have been visiting Chernobyl for over a decade, showing normal levels of radiation, at the exact same time "the authorities" claim Chernobyl will be uninhabitable for noth 50 years.
Go ahead and explain that one away.
Those were low double digit kiloton weapons that were detonated as air bursts. Now a days they would be classified as tactical nukes. So, you wouldn't expect a "nuclear wasteland".
Nukes are real, but they are nowhere near the doom porn that the media makes them out to be. A nuclear war would suck, and kill a lot of people, but it's not an extinction level event. The Nuclear Winter stuff is all bullshit too. It's based on an unsophisticated model from the 70s with ridiculous assumptions.
They were also relatively "clean" compared to what we call "dirty" bombs. Additionally, generally, the explosions became relatively cleaner over time. Likewise, this is specifically why underground testing became the norm. As this significantly reduced the worst of it above ground. Locking in the worst radioactivity underground.
But they say Chernobyl should be uninhabitable for at least 100 yeras after the event.
The wildfires in canada blanketed a good portion of the US in thick smoke. That same wind distribution will cover large areas in radioactive fallout. Those blasts will come with large fires too.
The media can't be trusted, but nuclear winter is a real threat given the fact that dozens, if not hundreds, of nukes go off evenly spaced accross the continent.
Tricky thing about radiation: it wasnt spread evenly from Chernobyl, and also is diluted unevenly. E.g. some surface dirt upwind of the facility? Likely negligible radiation for both reasons. Downwind? Depends if it's surface level dirt or in a sheltered building that slows dilution.
This turns into a turd in the punchbowl scenario. 95% of it is harmless punch by now. Care to blindfold yourself and try some punch to see if you get lucky?
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