Size of the Incident and Potential Affected Areas
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Radiation lethality will out-distance the thermal and blast damage only in low yield weapons
Source: Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute's Medical Effects of Ionizing Radiation Course on CD-ROM (1999)

Radiation lethality (LD50 — lethal dose will be received by 50% of population) will out-distance (km) the thermal and blast damage only in low yield weapons (= 1 kiloton)