"Carey Sublette" wrote:

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:"Fred J. McCall" wrote in message
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: "Carey Sublette" wrote:
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: :In Stalin's day of course he would have grown radioactive wheat and fed it
: :to the population.
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: Note that this is what they are doing right now with produce from the
: Chernobyl area.
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: :It would have saved them from starvation and immediate
: :death, but given them a lifespan much reduced from normal.
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: People grossly overestimate the effects of radiation. Not so much
: reduced at all. A few years lower on average, at most.
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:I believe you underestimate how radioactive the wheat would have been in
:fields downwind from a few hundred 400 kt ground bursts. This would be
:1000-10,000 times more contaminated than any from Chernobyl.

Nonsense. The radiation in the fallout zone may initially be that
much worse, but wheat is not going to pick that up in proportion. And
you still seem to be grossly overestimating the effects of radiation.
What do you think the reduction in lifespan is for folks who move into
the fallout zone?

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