Tbf for an individual nuke, the contamination effect isn’t quite as extreme as pop culture sometimes portrays it. There’s a reason that, for example, Hiroshima was rebuilt and exists as a city today, rather than being left as a Chernobyl-esque radiological contamination zone where people avoid living to avoid exposure.
Fireballs don’t usually contaminate the area …
Tbf for an individual nuke, the contamination effect isn’t quite as extreme as pop culture sometimes portrays it. There’s a reason that, for example, Hiroshima was rebuilt and exists as a city today, rather than being left as a Chernobyl-esque radiological contamination zone where people avoid living to avoid exposure.