Velkanika wrote:Dewhurst-Narculis wrote:
Usually the most likely places to see large multiple blasts is at military installations such as silo fields, defesive lines as well as regional cities that are close to larger cities. the closer the blasts the total volume of fallout increases. Ten 1-10kt blasts over an area of 100-250km2 would produce an decent amount of fallout that would force a lot of precautions
Fair enough, but I don't think there'd be many trenches inside an ICBM field someone would take cover in. I think everyone would be either holed up in a bunker or leaving in a very big hurry long before a nuclear weapon arrived. As for the multiple tactical nuclear weapon scenario, the fallout of each weapon will be extremely limited and shouldn't impact infantrymen in the open further than 5 miles down wind for your typical bombardment of sub-kiloton artillery shells. If they've got CRBN suits they'll be fine for the duration of the intense radiation period unless they stand in the craters before they "cool down" for a few hours.
I believe it was and to a lesser degree still, standard to have some basic earthen defenses in airbases or other areas that may be threatened by aerial attack. Alternatively you could always jump in a drainage ditch.
Subkiloton, yes. It would be limited but it still would be detectable nearly 45km downwind with only a 25kph wind, though this swath of fallout would be only a few km wide. Of course this is for a sub-airburst/surface burst.
