# What evidence can you observe from a 2,000 yo nuclear blast?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 26, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-evidence-can-you-observe-from-a-2-000-yo-nuclear-blast/651412 "2013-02-26T04:18:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![dstarfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dstarfire/32/5762_2.png) [@dstarfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dstarfire)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-evidence-can-you-observe-from-a-2-000-yo-nuclear-blast/651412/21 "2013-02-26T20:57:04Z")

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> [@LawMonkey](#):
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> Pillar of salt. Not, so far as I know, one of the symptoms of severe radiation poisoning.

But wouldn’t the conversion of carbon, hydrogen, and all the other elements in the human body to sodium and chloride produce enough radiation to **cause** radiation poisoning?

(pre-emptive joke snipe) And since the other people fleeing the scene didn’t die of cancer a few days later, we have proof of divine intervention (/pre-emptive joke snipe)

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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-evidence-can-you-observe-from-a-2-000-yo-nuclear-blast/651412/22 "2013-02-27T22:46:27Z")

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There is evidence at Hiroshima and Nagasaki of peoples’ shadows being burned into walls and the ground during the flash.

[![](https://poisonandvision.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/hiroshima_shadow.jpg) ](https://poisonandvision.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/hiroshima_shadow.jpg)  
[http://pegasus.phys.saga-u.ac.jp/imagesMac-PC/ForPEACE/shadow.jpg](http://pegasus.phys.saga-u.ac.jp/imagesMac-PC/ForPEACE/shadow.jpg)

I figured, something along those lines happened to Lot’s Wife.

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