RadAway
Roentgone Nukiban Becquellazam Radax Curifase
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/RadAway
(Some game writer is probably kicking themselves for not coming up with Roentgone, though.)
SRI’s radioactive contamination treatment is now in its first-in-human trial
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It's pretty striking that when they set off the Castle Bravo thermonuclear weapons test in the Pacific Ocean, someone superimposed the fallout map on the continental USA. If it had been dropped on DC, half of the population in NYC would have received a fatal dose from the fallout (if unsheltered). Kinda nuts. > "If Bravo had been detonated in Washington, D.C., instead of Bikini, Fields illustrated with a diagram, tha…
Also take iodine
That's really only needed for children and young adults. The CDC recommends taking Potassium Iodide (KI) if you're under 40 or pregnant/nursing.
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#24I can’t help but think that this makes nuclear conflict easier to start. It’s a great thing but sure makes pushing that button easier if you know you can take a pill and not everyone dies.
Nuclear winter leading to crop failure and famine is still a terrifying specter. Even if there was a magical pill that made people 100% radiation proof that could be easily manufactured and distributed without any logistical problems, there would still be UNFATHOMABLE death and misery, and I think there’d still be pretty good odds that we’d go extinct.
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In a mutually assured destruction scenario, I don't think you could plausibly expect to invade the other country. The world as we know it would be over but some people would survive the exchange, maybe those in power could have a lot of spite and want to completely salt the earth with some cesium nukes to prevent the other country from recovering even after the nuclear winter subsides.
Why would they build the weapon in the first place though? MAD is a deterrence strategy: the weapon isn't meant to be used, but to work you must have sufficient weapons to ensure you get reliable kills on all your military targets. If this is the plan, then building more weapons than that is a pointless waste of money because you're not planning to use them. If MAD isn't the plan, but rather hostage taking (ala North…
In a non-MAD employment scenario, you would build them for area denial. e.g. I don't really know how far the fallout would go from some cesium nukes, but maybe if russia wants a moat that lasts a long time but they can't take over ukraine with conventional forces, then they could launch some at ukraine and build their moat that way.
In a MAD scenario, I would view them as a bigger scarier stick to threaten people with.