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Re:US drops 'largest non-nuclear bomb' in Afghanistan by AnimalMuppet on Thursday April 13, 2017 @04:56PM (#14110855)
> You don't think blowing bits of a building in a twenty mile radius would cause cancer?

No; why would it? You cause cancer by damaging the DNA of cells. A mere explosion isn't going to do that.

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Re:US drops 'largest non-nuclear bomb' in Afghanistan by boomboomsubban on Thursday April 13, 2017 @06:03PM (#14111256)
Buildings are made of things like lead and asbestos, blowing small bits of a building over a huge radius seems like a likely hazard. Plus, whatever the hell the bomb is made of.
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Re:US drops 'largest non-nuclear bomb' in Afghanistan by AnimalMuppet on Thursday April 13, 2017 @06:57PM (#14111496)
Ah, I see. Well, that's kind of true, but it's like saying that earthquakes cause cancer, because when the building collapses in an earthquake, it also spreads things like asbestos into the air. I mean, it's still true, but it's so much a smaller effect than the other problems, it's pretty much ignored.
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