Is it safe or was it safe where you live ?

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"Project Gladio" should be your first point of research as it's declassified now.


While this seems obvious it's not really what happens.
The bombs actually require quite a lot of 'coaxing' (pressure and neutron reflection) for the big bangs. The biggest nuke ever set off was in the 1960s, ever since then the makers have been making them smaller. 60 years of miniaturization has given them the ability to take out targets such as a heavily defended Baghdad airport or turn large towers to dust with a well aimed low yield nuke. 'Battlefield' nukes they call them and they are regularly used in Afghanistan, Syria etc for tactical advantage in regime change ops and false flags. You can recognise then still by the flash and crater, confirmation is usually when the youtube videos are taken down LOL. VT did a great article on this if you're interested, although sadly video free now.

A reactor however tends to be a quiet balanced mix of stuff that 'hums away' in a moderately stable manner, meltdowns like in Fukushima create new fission reactions but each criticality tends to push the fuel apart so they self extinguish. These little 'flashes' have even happened in reprocessing labs and tend to at most kill people with neutron storms. Louis Slotin's was one of the most preventable, he slipped when messing about with a screwdriver:
http://www.abomb1.org/accident/critical.html (search for Slotin)

Most catastophic leaks from reactors happen due to overpressure and steam explosions due to loss of cooling. Fukushima was interesting in that at the time the people who believed in authority would vehemently argue that they were safe and would be contained, but they hadn't read the GE admissions from IIRC 1947 + 1972 that explained that the containment was of too small a volume. After Fukushima the American models of the GE MK1 and MKII were modified to vent the containment to the outside via a nice big chimney.

Another fact people are blissfully unaware of is how careless the military are with their nukes, a few were even accidentally dropped on Spain, a couple were only one slight fault away from going off too.

So I would be perfect safe if it went tits up at 18 miles away then?