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If you bombard any metal with high enough amount of radiation it will absorb some of it, but the DU is amongst the materials with the lowest coefficient, which is why it is used for radiation shielding where they can afford it (much more expensive than lead), so the Abrams crews would be much...

There is no evidence anyone ever built the salted nukes, and modifying the existing warheads would be anything but straightforward. Also the concept of radiation ''reactivating the depleted uranium'' is bullshit, you can't enrich it by exposing it to radiation, on the opposite as very dense...

Radioactive fallout from full nuclear exchange (even at Cold War strength) is nowhere as pervasive and deadly as portrayed in the novel and movie, areas away from targeted places would get increased cancer rates and not deadly radiation sickness.

I live in a town surrounded by hills in a country nobody cares about. The big worry for me would be the shortages after the supply chains and economy of the world collapse. I am kind of attached to the idea of 3-5 meals per day and toilet paper.