How does a nuclear bomb radiation affect you?

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Answer 1

If you search radiation poisoning you can find out

Answer 2

Radiation is deadly to both the skin and organs. Furthermore it is proven to accelerate the inception of cancer and other deadly disorders in the body. Mutations become much more frequent and much less due to chance.

Answer 3

I don't know, I've never been nuked that I know of.

Answer 4

Prompt Ionizing Radiation:

The distance from a 10-kiloton surface explosion at which a person in the open could receive a prompt dose of 500 rem from neutrons and gamma rays (the dose that will prove fatal within 30 days to about half the people receiving it) is around 1,500 meters.

For a 1-kiloton surface explosion, this distance would be around 1,100 meters, and for a 100-kiloton thermonuclear explosion about 1,800 meters. Doses received by people shielded from the explosion by buildings would be lower.

Ground level bursts will have greater fallout effects as the debris is hurtled high into the air and carried by the jet stream or tradewinds  further than the initial dose of radiation.

At the molecular level, the neutrons and gamma rays mutate your molecules.Injury to living tissue results from the transfer of energy to atoms and molecules in the cellular structure. Ionizing radiation causes atoms and molecules to become ionized or excited. These excitations and ionizations can:

-Produce free radicals.

-Break chemical bonds.

-Produce new chemical bonds and cross-linkage between macromolecules.

-Damage molecules that regulate vital cell processes (e.g. DNA, RNA, proteins).

The cell can repair certain levels of cell damage. At low doses, such as that received every day from background radiation or when you're x-rayed at your doctor's office, cellular damage is rapidly repaired.

At higher levels, cell death results. At extremely high doses, cells cannot be replaced quickly enough, and tissues fail to function. Anyway, that's the long and short of it.

Answer 5

it like melts you it is really horrible go to google or ask jeeves and see what comes up

Answer 6

Depends on the size of the bomb, elevation, where it landed, etc. Gb2 the couch.