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- if you "see" the flash, thats the last thing youre ever going to see. will blind you.

- thermal radiation is, in fact, light, which travels at the speed of light - but you should not imagine the entirety of the thermal energy to be released by a nuclear weapon to be released instantaneously in a radially travelling sphere. that being said, youre not going to outrun such an explosion. where you are at the time of detonation pretty much determines your odds of survival.

parent wayn3 9 years ago

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