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Warpy

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5. Nobody knew shit back then
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 07:04 PM
Aug 6

about radiation and its lingering effects, tumors appearing a decade or two after the fact and that radiation dosage is cumulative, meaning it all adds up and never goes away.

They likely saw little difference between burning a city with a nuke and burning it with carpet bombing and only gradually learned about radiation and increased cancers later on, showing up in vital statistics reports but not predictable on an individual level.

This is the level of knowledge and lack of protocol I'm talking about:



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