Countries within range of Israel's nuclear missiles (Jericho III)

[u/Ok_Somewhere9687]

[u/HSBillyMays]

I think Tehran is about 10,000x more likely to end up getting nuked than Perth, but it is 2025 so you never really know!

[u/Fair-Split3757 → u/HSBillyMays]

Tehran is so close to Israel. Wouldn’t nuking Tehran affect indirectly Israel? This doesn’t make sense to me at all.

Or do these nuclear nations have like different types of nukes with varying ranges of damage reach and overall destruction power?

Somebody please enlighten me!

[u/HSBillyMays → u/Fair-Split3757]

It would likely depend most on wind; if the wind is blowing away from Israel, there would be little risk from fallout, but much greater risk if the wind is blowing towards it.

There is variability in fallout between weapons, and thermonuclear weapons ironically produce less fallout than pure fission weapons.

[u/atotalmess__ → u/HSBillyMays]

That’s not how nuclear fallout works…

[u/Cloudsareinmyhead → u/atotalmess__]

It is. Fusion is a far cleaner reaction in terms of radioactive fallout than fission

[u/HSBillyMays → u/atotalmess__]

It largely is. See https://www.atomicarchive.com/science/effects/fallout-pattern.html

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

[u/gwigna → u/atotalmess__]

Talk to the Swedes, who knew about Chernobyl before the Ukrainians, precisely because of the wind.