"Prior to my answer, let me make clear that I am not in favor of nuclear war."


Whew!  That's  a relief.

As far as effects go....when I first joined the (former) Physiology department at Cornell University, it was called "Physical Biology" and it dealt with, among other things, radiation biology.  The faculty working on radiation were not replaced as attrition happened during the '80s, because everyone came to realize that many/most forms of radiation and life are not very compatible and they had meanwhile resolved most of the medical questions.



The bottom line is:  Radiation damages DNA.  That is enough to know that radiation affects all living things in a negative way.


Christina

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