ANSWERS: 2
  • Yes. So does boiling water, lysol, and UV from the sun when you hang your clothes out to dry.
  • "only those atoms that are in the immediate vicinity of a nuclear explosion would be ionized (destroyed) but most of earth would remain more or less intact, especially because most of earth is not inhabited densely enough by humans to make a worthwhile target for nuclear weapons. The nuclear winter (radioactive fallout, global darkening and thus falling temperatures) are the effects that really harm the global biosphere. Probably lots of microbes, bacteria and some insects would survive by adapting to the new environment. Some form of life would most certainly survive, e.g. in the depths of the oceans. Evolution need not start from the very beginning of creating life in the first place." Source and further information: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Physics-1358/Nuclear-War.htm

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