--- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> But this is incorrect. Atomic weapons have three
> main effects, only two of which
> are shared with conventional ordinance. Those are:
> blast, heat and radiation.
> It's the third item, the one even the largest
> thermobaric bomb can't deliver,
> that places fission and fusion weapons in an
> entirely new category.
How much of this was known at the time? My understanding is that much of what was learned early on about radiation exposure was from those two little experiments.
Not that such knowledge would have necessarily changed any decisions.
Andy
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