I wonder how many people in this thread actually know what nuclear fallout is.
If you want to know it's large amounts of irradiated soil and dust which is thrown up into the air as a result of any sort of explosion around a radioactive object, said soil is then carried across the globe by the winds where it will settle in varying degrees along it's flow path.
However fallout can also be created purely by the irradiated shrapnel and waste nuclear material from a nuclear explosive, but the shrapnel and such only constitutes for effective fallout if it was an air burst device and not a pressure-sensitive detonation device (E.g a regular bomb).
Basically, fallout cannot even exist to begin with unless there is irradiated soil/dust and an explosion to kick it up into the atmosphere or a nuclear explosive device that has been set off.
I don't care if you already knew, it helps to refresh your knowlege
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