What effect has the explosion of atomic bombs had on the environment?

Question

Any animals mutated? If so which ones and how?

Answer 1

Yes, Nuclear weapons do cause mutations in living animals. The radiation causes mutations in cells otherwise known as cancer and leukemia.

Answer 2

I think humans have mutated into slobbering idiots.

Answer 3

Both of the cities that were bombed are now heavily populated with human beings. I remember the total population is now about 1.6 million. That is not too bad for ground zero and only 60 years after a blast. As others said mutations is not the issue. The higher the life form is on the food chain the more radiation it intakes. This increases the likely hood of cancer and a shortened life in a higher percentage of the population. Similar to all the people who spend time in tanning booths or on the beach. Life is pretty forgiving. A nuclear blast is dangerous and does shorten lifespans but the overall affects are not as bad as some would like to believe.

Answer 4

Mutations of animals as a nuclear bomb effect is pretty much unheard of (atomic bomb does not mean what you think it means).

Besides, radiation is actually not all that good at producing survivable mutations anyway.

The area directly around the blast tends to be pretty badly contaminated although a lot depends on what kind of bomb is tested and how they test it (ground blasts produce more fallout than air blasts and the more of the boom comes from fusion the less fallout is created) with bombs that don't work tending to do more damage because they spread the plutonium around the area instead of spreading it around into near harmlessness.

On the environment on the whole planet it basically hasn't done much.

Answer 5

Don't worry about we have used but the one the Moslem's want to use on us .