Hmm . If I remember the first 10 years of school correctly I had concentration like a three year old in a toy store from first grade . <| sep |> he ' s a poor student those things are expensive . <| sep |> Quick everybody ask Thielen or so and so ! I ' ll start , Thielen or Marshall ? <| sep |> Actually , yes , with an air burst bomb the radiation poisoning is severely overstated . Most of the people in the affected area are killed outright , or die very briefly after due to thermal radiation , overpressure , or traditional injuries like lacerations , being crushed by rubble , etc . Lingering radioactive particles mostly spread into the atmosphere , rather than the ground , and are mostly blown away literally within a few weeks . The long term background radiation isn ' t all that much higher than anywhere else . I know about this from multiple sources including my grandfather who worked in the nuclear weapons field in the military during the height of the cold war , and went over to the civilian RD side after he retired . Also easily verifiable by looking up how well Hiroshima and Nagasaki are doing now , and were even relatively shortly say , 510 years after the bombings . Re the second part , 10 million is used as a generic number and includes nonJews i . e . Poles , Gypsies , collateral damage , etc . The exact numbers have been well established for decades and no attempt to dispute them has ever held any water . Just because you say otherwise doesn ' t make it so , just like saying 2 2 5 .