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myLot reputation of 74/100. abhichat1980 (225)   ranked 1,303 out of 3,259 in health 3 years ago

Recently France after much denial for decades have finally agreed to compensate victims of Nuclear Fallout for the series of tests that it carried out first in Algeria and then in French Polynesia in the Pacific. Up to 150,000 civil and military people were affected.
France is the first country after USA to announce such a policy. But does any compensation override the pain of the slow death that is inflicted upon the victims exposed to radiation and also the agony their families had to go through. But still it is a step in the right direction.
When I was going through the news I started to search for Nuclear Testing history. Firstly I found that a lot of the testing earlier used to be atmospheric which means they affected a lot many more people than any government can probably compensate. Also the largest nuclear device ever tested(by USSR) had an yield of approx 57 Megatons which is 10 times that of all warheads used in World War 2. It is scary to imagine what will be left of the earth if two major nuclear powers were to go to war?


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1. niloyc (22)   3 years ago

Ya is it really scary to imagine what would happen if two nuke superpowers were to go to war. But then I guess this would never happen .......... balance of power you know. Otherwise USA and the USSR were locked in cold war for such a long time ...... why didn't they go for an all out war ......... why did they always fight proxy battles at third fronts. So don't imagine a possibility that is very unlikely to happen.

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2. highhead (64)   3 years ago

that will be the end for humanity or evolution will have to take another form everyone want to be nuclear power they have forgotten the consequences but one thing is there means it show you have that power and i also have that power if you use i will also use and both will be destroyed so no one will use but will have it

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3. myLot reputation of 90/100. Misiufraggle (228)   ranked 2,568 out of 3,259 in health   3 years ago

There was a news story on the BBC website a few days ago about a 93 year old man who is the only known survivor of BOTH the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs! Apparently he was on a business trip in Hiroshima when the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. He was treated for burns, before returning to his home city of Nagasaki - just in time for that city to be hit by the second atomic bomb!

I'm not sure whether to say he is lucky, to have survived two atomic bombs, or unlucky to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time - twice!

The fact he is 93 years old and lived through all that must make him pretty much indestructable!

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