Based on the capabilities of the current world aresenal, what would you estimate the number needed to produced the same effect now?
Rough calculation from 1948 on number of atomic bombs necessary to make USA and globe lethally radioactive. Comes out to 1,000-60,000 Mt.pic.twitter.com/KDpQhHR6sd
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World nuclear stockpiles are around 1,500-2,200 Mt by my estimate. But I don't know if Hamilton's estimate is right.
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Hopefully we don't ever have to find out... But the subject is an intriguing one, even if it is a grim curiosity.
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this was by Joseph Hamilton, who experimented with radioisotope injections and advocated for radiological warfare (1/2)
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Here's an article I wrote on Hamilton back when I was a grad student: http://groverlab.org/assets/all-the-easy-experiments.pdf … (2/2)
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I hadn't seen the picture of the radioactive syringe before! That's pretty wild.
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I got that photo from
@orau's excellent online Health Physics museum: https://www.orau.org/PTP/collection/nuclearmedicine/syringeshield.htm …
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I'm ever again fascinated by the error bars on these estimations.
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But if that were your objective you would use "salted" bombs and optimize targeting for lethal dispersal.
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More interesting q. is how much does it take to ensure killing "nearly" everyone, all effects included. I think we've got it.
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impressive! May I ask you to share the source document?
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Higher yield's produce nearly exponentially more fallout. A dampener of U238 could be replaced with Cobalt for 50yr fallout
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