Why are Hiroshima and Nagasaki safe to live while Marie Curie’s notebook won’t be safe to handle for at least another millennium?
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Two major factors. Airburst nuclear explosions are designed to cause maximum damage over a wide area, this also means that the ground isn’t covered in small lumps of radioactive material. The other is the half-life of the materials used, Radium is radioactive for thousands of years. https://youtu.be/AaDwk8UCrew
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