What would happen if five modern nuclear bombs detonated over a town?

[physicsscribe]

Let's say the town is a coastal town. How long would the radiation remain? Would there be any fallout comparable to nuclear winter? How would the ocean be affected?

 

[mfb]

Why 5?
It depends on the type of nuclear weapon - their yields vary widely (much more than a factor of 5), and their fallout is variable as well.
Most products of nuclear weapons are short-living or distribute quickly in the environment. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, reconstruction started quickly (~months) after the bombs.

There would be no relevant global impact.

 

[HowlerMonkey]

Also depends on the altitude, the type of matter on the ground that could be propelled into the atmosphere, the type of bomb...etc...goes on forever...so many variables.

 

[KWilliamsAF]

Let's say the town is a coastal town. How long would the radiation remain? Would there be any fallout comparable to nuclear winter? How would the ocean be affected?

http://www.mypixshare.net/files/img/user_uploads/displayimage.php?id=gbbsl388kkjk6563668.gif
There are variables all the way down to the pigment of the skin of the populous below...

 

[berkeman]

http://www.mypixshare.net/files/img/user_uploads/displayimage.php?id=gbbsl388kkjk6563668.gif
There are variables all the way down to the pigment of the skin of the populous below...

Ex-populous. What in the world do you mean with this post?

 

[etudiant]

Ex-populous. What in the world do you mean with this post?

Probably that the flash burns will differ in degree depending on skin color if the victim is far enough away.

 

[berkeman]

Probably that the flash burns will differ in degree depending on skin color if the victim is far enough away.

I guess. VERY far away!

 

[SteamKing]

http://www.mypixshare.net/files/img/user_uploads/displayimage.php?id=gbbsl388kkjk6563668.gif
There are variables all the way down to the pigment of the skin of the populous below...

'Populous' is an adjective. The word you are looking for is 'populace'.

 

[Integral]

Not sure what this is but is surely is NOT Nuclear Engineering.
Moved to GD,

Sorry Evo.

 

[Evo]

I stuck a fork in it, this thread is done.