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Originally Posted by MikeWasHere05
200,000 in the initial impact maybe, but what about all those that got cancer from the radiation?
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The number of deaths among the survivors attributed to radiation-induced cancer is less than 500. No genetic effects (i.e. mutations in offspring) have yet been seen, but animal studies suggest that they typically don't appear until several generations after the initial exposure, so the jury is still out on that count.
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Imagine if terrorist's set a nuclear bomb off in New York City. With one bomb, millions of people would be killed, hundreds of thousands would later die due to cancer, thousands of square miles of land would be inhabitable for centuries, and the whole world's economy would be in threat.
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A single bomb capable of killing that many in one stroke would be unreasonably large. The cancer risk is definitely there, but highly overblown. I'd accept a major disruption to the global economy.
But "[un]inhabitable for centuries"? No way. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are obvious indications to the contrary.