Timeline for answer to Could a nation feasibly hide its early wartime use of nuclear weapons during World War 2? by lidar
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| Jan 2 at 12:43 | vote | accept | Dmyt | ||
| Dec 16, 2025 at 6:29 | comment | added | Klyis | Wouldn't work. Even exposure to massive amounts of ionizing radiation takes time to kill (days to months). Additionally, the most highly radioactive isotopes produced by nukes have short half lives and would decay to safe levels within weeks. Long term exposure would remain a risk, but not enough to deter people from brief visits. | |
| Dec 15, 2025 at 23:01 | comment | added | lidar | You could fiy that problem with more nukes. Irradiate the entire island so much everybody stepping foot on it instantly dies and nobody will ever find out how irradiated it is. | |
| Dec 15, 2025 at 21:20 | comment | added | Trish | there's one way to cover up all the loose mouths: Execute them all, destroy their reports, then execute the executioner, then destroy everything that could be evidence of why they were killed, then kill anyone that even knew these people existed... in short: kill the whole nation just to cover up all the tales... but that leaves the physical residue of irradiated shipwrecks and soil. | |
| Dec 15, 2025 at 11:09 | comment | added | Klyis | That was my thought as well. By the 1940s fleets just don't just 'disappear' without a trace. A submarine? Sure. Single surface ship? Maybe. But an entire fleet? No. Even in operation Ten-Go (the last sortie of battleship Yamato) a few Japanese ships still escaped despite being attacked by nearly 400 American aircraft. And that wasn't even a big fleet to begin with. | |
| Dec 15, 2025 at 7:10 | history | answered | lidar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |