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Re:Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda by catalogia on Thursday June 18, 2020 @12:24AM (#23559788)
MANY victims of Hiroshima died like those firefighters died. Not all were vaporized instantly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...

(I know the premise you were responding to was standing right next to ground zero, where you would have been vaporized, but I think it's worth mentioning that not all of the people killed died like that.)

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Re:Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda by redis_mlc on Thursday June 18, 2020 @07:03AM (#23561910)
Since it's pedantic HN nuclear day again, actually it was an airburst.
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Re:Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda by catalogia on Thursday June 18, 2020 @01:38PM (#23565503)
Well since we're being pedantic, I didn't say anything about groundbursts. "Ground zero" in the context of Hiroshima refers to the hypocenter.

> In the case of an explosion above the ground, ground zero is the point on the ground directly below the nuclear detonation and is sometimes called the hypocenter (from Greek ὑπο- "under-" and center).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_zero

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