Ecological Impacts: The Environmental Impact Of The Atomic Bomb

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Ecological Impact of the Atomic Bomb The human casualty and health impact of the atomic bomb are often discussed and covered in great details. The environmental impact of the atomic bomb on the other hand does not have a lot of attention paid to. Without a doubt, the environmental impact of the atomic bomb is very large and significant. One of the biggest and longest lasting environmental impacts of the detonation of the atomic bomb is the radiation contaminations that are left over. These contaminations spread into water, air, animals, soil and into the atmosphere. What’s worse is that these contaminations have materials that have very long half-life meaning that their radiation effects do not decay quickly. “Many of the substances released, including plutonium, uranium, strontium, cesium, benzene, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), mercury and cyanide, are carcinogenic and/or mutagenic and remain hazardous for thousands, some for hundreds of thousands, of year” (The Effects of nuclear weapons). The spread of these contaminates will cause significant health risks to animals ca...

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