03-07-2013, 11:51 PM
(03-07-2013, 11:48 PM)Who Wrote: I believe the explosion from a nuclear missile is the first part, then comes the radiation cloud which can be expanded by the wind. And before the U.S thinks of striking North Korea with nuclear weapons, since it is a small country, has to consider the posibility of unintended consequences for neighbor countries.
Indeed.
There were people pretty worried over in California after the tsunami in Japan, because the radiation from the power plant was being carried that far from the disaster site.
There is still a large portion of central Western Asia that is unsafely irradiated from the aftermath of Chernobyl.
And those were highly-regulated power plant failures, not weapons of mass-destruction meant to unleash high amounts of radiation.
Like I said, launching a nuclear weapon is always a terrible, terrible, stupid idea. It's just an extra level of stupid for North Korea.