Um . . .

Oops?

Narrator:
There is one terrifying word in the world of nuclear physics...

Servo:
"Oops".

Narrator:
..."radiation".

Servo:
Oh.

Narrator:
There is one terrifying sentence in the world of mankind...

Servo:
"Not my fault".

Narrator:
..."Let's do it again".

Servo:
Oh.

I thought it was; "Hold my beer.".

One of my favorite jokes from 'Monster A Go-Go'.

I do hope India, China, and Pakistan are listening.

All they have to do is read the analysis of the Castle Bravo shot.

The Karno Universe meets Fallout Universe

Gonna either be some interesting mutants or some really grotesque ones... karno can do both well.

Mutants that look like hairless (more or less) apes

These scientists have really made a miscalculation....

Forgot to carry the '2.'

to quote that time honored phrase " Well.. there goes the ol' neighborhood..."

Yeah, property values are going to be shit for - oh, I dunno, about the next 20,000 years or so. Depending on the fissile material used.

The worst of it is only a short time. But yeah, it won't help.

*Slowly hides his Nuclear Juggling Bowling Pins*

What have we learned?

"PUSH THE BUTTON MAX!!!"

"Push the button, Frank."

"I'll get around to it when I'm ready. Sheesh."

"Tell me, Frank: Does it hurt much?"

"Does what hurt?"

(Dr. F. pushes the button; screen goes dark)

"AIYEE!"

I sincerely hope the impact of nuclear weapons never passes into myth. Can you just imagine how destructive a "everything is fine now" mindset would be in relation to these weapons?

I hate to break this to you, but a lot of people in the west already have that mindset.

The good news is, we got a much higher yield than we calculated.

The bad news is, Phoenix, Tucson and Albuquerque aren't responding...

It's bad that Phoenix isn't responding why?

So children what did we learn today?

1 mile is NOT a safe distance from a nuclear explosion

well atlest they aren't alive to be killed later by the people who well want there hides from this? XD yeah.. i wonder how this well be with the rad's

So few uranium is enough for a nuclear reaction?

There must be a miscalculation in the papers of our anchestors - mmmmh, lets take 10 times as much.




Splendid....

Remember: someone had to ask if this would ignite the atmosphere. And they had to seriously consider the math.

(Thankfully no where near close enough, but when you gotta do that kinda math to make sure...yeeeah)

and then it came down to a coin toss...

Brings to mind the sawtooth tests

Hooo boy.....that'll affect the area for literally decades.

......Oh dear..

JUST like in REAL LIFE!!




...wait...uh....

Most modern nukes are in the 100 to 330 KT Range.

Any bigger and you blast most of the energy in to space.

Being brought up in the 1950's it's a small miracle we didn't get irradiated back then.

We did. Born after 1945 you have various isotopes in your bones.

Pro: The moron who invented that thing and the idiots ordering that thing are all dead. Contra: Many more gonna die. Pro: Less food problem, since most gonna die and dead don't need food. contra: the area is widespread for a long long time unusable. no one is able to live there for a damn long time.

Pro: Less food problem, since most gonna die and dead don't need food.
Con: more food problem, since a large swath of arable land (for the herbivores) and population (for the carnivores) are now contaminated and useless for producing/being food.

This may be more than a power vacuum this may be the starters shot for total anarchy.

The scary part is that when they did the original Abomb testing in the Real World, they weren't sure how powerful it would be...

Turns out, even our distant descendants are just as stupid as we are.

Just recreated the same catastrophe that destroyed their world in the first place.

This is going to get interesting. Rodenta tend to be fairly resistant to radiation... "Rat-topioa" anyone?

Mousecow.

So much for re-election.

Intresting puvblically available fact about yields.

The first Meg is pure thermonuclear.

The next 100 Meg is due to the Fast Breeder Uranium Casing.

Thats a Very Fat casing.

Thats why 1 Megs are so called Clean. No casing.

"I am not an atomic playboy"

Even if there isn't enough material to cause outright radiation sickness, those cities can look forward to an exponentially increased cancer rate.

Zombies will inherit the earth.

well the Fallout is what can severely kill

it killed of John Wayne & others from the film Genghis Khan
they used a area in a desert that was contaminated by nuke tests!
no one knew it either!

Three letters that everyone is forgetting... E.M.P. If said story is taking place in a post 1950's setting, that entire region will be thrown back to the dark ages. Oops indeed.

Castle Bravo was the first in a series of high-yield thermonuclear weapon design tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Castle. Detonated on March 1, 1954, the device was the most powerful nuclear device detonated by the United States and its first lithium deuteride fueled thermonuclear weapon.

Castle Bravo's yield was 15 megatons of TNT, 2.5 times the predicted 6.0 megatons, due to unforeseen additional reactions involving 7Li, which led to the unexpected radioactive contamination of areas to the east of Bikini Atoll. At the time, it was the most powerful artificial explosion in history.

Fallout, the most heavy of which in the form of pulverized surface coral from the detonation fell on residents of Rongelap and Utirik atolls, while the more particulate and gaseous fallout spread around the world. The inhabitants of the islands were not evacuated until three days later and suffered radiation sickness. Twenty-three crew members of the Japanese fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryū Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") were also contaminated by the heavy fallout, experiencing acute radiation syndrome.

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The unexpectedly high yield of the device severely damaged many of the permanent buildings on the control site island on the far side of the atoll. Little of the desired diagnostic data on the shot was collected; many instruments designed to transmit their data back before being destroyed by the blast were instead vaporized instantly, while most of the instruments that were expected to be recovered for data retrieval were destroyed by the blast.


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history is exciting and radiant :)