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Old 03-16-2023, 05:28 PM
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Or an Ottawa sourcebook.



Ottawa, which was hit hard enough as it is, is directly downwind from the Chalk River Nuclear Power Plant, which was targeted in the Canada hit list.

Incidentally, the fallout in these maps is grossly exaggerated. In most cases (except for specific rainouts where the stabilized nuclear cloud is *under* a rainstorm), airbursts create very little acutely dangerous fallout. But GDW generally went with the "airbursts don't create as much fallout as ground bursts".

Assuming the same attack pattern, in reality there would be a lot fewer 3000/1000 rem contours, and the >0 and <10 rem contours would be much more widespread, but I tried to make it "canon consistent". Also, after 3 years, even the 3000 rem radiation zone would be largely 1 rem/hour exposure risk. Except for Ottawa. The radionucleotides from a nuclear meltdown tend to be longer lived gamma ray emitters than what's produced from a nuclear detonation.

GDW's canon target list for North America only has ~24 ground bursts (25 if you count the Seattle atomic demolition munition in the Northwest Sourcebook).
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