What reading did you do in regards to it blowing over the world? Uranium (or Plutonium) is a very very heavy element, so it wouldn't likely blow very far. Now, the cooling material that nuclear reactors use are often light (and noble gases), so if there is an issue with a reactor, than I could see that blowing around (like what happened with Chernobyl), but those coolants are not used in nuclear weapons. If they get a fission bomb (like the bombs dropped on Japan), the material should fall to the ground pretty quickly. Like Japan, it didn't spread very far (on a global scale). If it is a fussion bomb (like an H-bomb), the helium that comes from it, rises up and out of our atmosphere (because it is so light), so it won't spread either (though the neutrons will make just about anything radioactive in the vicinity).

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I was seriously considering building a shelter in my next house, and probably will if I can afford it. Wanted to research the effects of distance from a blast. Wind will carry fallout a fair distance, and it will drop with the rain.
Not sure how much an overseas blast would effect us, but I would bet multiple blasts would. Again, its been awhile since I did the research.

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Three weeks of terrifying "economic sanctions" by Iran on the west, using the power of spin, PR and global media fanaticism, have left most enemies of Iran reeling, still bleeding and in pain from the financial repercussions of oil prices climbing steadily towards infinity.

Even now the price isn't coming down in any real sense, it's just deflating a bit at its new high level. Even China, in full economic bloom, suffered from the oil price hike.

What the **** are you on about?

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Are you in the US? You might not have to worry much about it then. I'm a fair distance away in Egypt, but still close enough to be concerned about it.

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If there were multiple nuclear blasts overseas, I'd at least want to store up some water and iodine, just in case the wind dumps a particularly large dose on your region.

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I cannot remember all the details of what I have read, but a large blast would have a devastating effect all over the place. Being in Egypt..you would be pretty close. Its the winds and particularly the rain that spread the fallout.
Heaven forbid anyone use these weapons anywhere in the world..

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