Nuclear fallout
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Nuclear fallout, or fallout, is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast, so called because it "falls out" of the sky after the explosion and the shock wave have passed.
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See also
- Dirty bomb
- Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy
- Fallout Protection—U.S. government booklet
- Effects of nuclear explosions
- Fallout (RTÉ drama)—Irish drama exploring scenarios following a nuclear accident at Sellafield.
- Fallout (series)
- Fallout shelter
- Fission product
- Hot Particle
- Human radiation experiments
- List of nuclear accidents
- Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
- Neutron bomb
- Mutation breeding#Radiation breeding
- Nuclear terrorism
- Nuclear war survival skills by Cresson Kearny
- Nuclear weapon design
- Potassium iodide
- Project GABRIEL
- Protect and Survive, a series of booklets and a public information film series produced for the British government in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Radioactive contamination
- Radiation poisoning
- Radiation biology
- Radioactive waste
- Radiological weapon
- Joseph Rotblat
- Salted bomb
- Survival Under Atomic Attack, an official U.S. government booklet regarding the effects of a nuclear attack.
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