| Every time it rained, which is often in South and Central America, the lighter radioactive dust would be literally washed from the atmosphere to the Earth and accumulate. Death from cumulative radiation poisoning would be slow but sure. Think of your body retaining heavy metal oxides until your internal organs died from toxic shock. There will be no hiding places.
__________________  “War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” —John Stuart Mill |