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[quote=Anonymous]Nukes aren’t actually hot enough to instantly vaporize people unless you’re standing extremely close to the warhead.

The center is millions of degrees but outwards you’re talking more in the low thousands and the pulse of thermal infrared light is ridiculously brief. It’s enough to ignite anything flammable like clothes and wood houses but it’s not going to instantly turn an entire human body into gas.

What will kill you almost instantly is the blast wave that follows within a few seconds. If you’re in direct line of sight your clothes and hair will catch fire, your skin will start to burn, you’ll be blinded. But if you’re close enough to experience the searing heat of a nuke the blast will rip you apart before you’ve suffered long. If you’re close to ground zero but not in direct line of sight you’ll still be killed by the blast either directly or from falling buildings and debris. You do have a very slim chance of survival if in the right kind of shelter, there were people in Hiroshima who survived almost directly beneath ground zero who were in concrete buildings. Obviously that bomb was weaker than modern bombs but still.
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