First, the psychological "fallout" of the radiation leaks will not just be widespread.
The fallout came from hundreds of above-ground nuclear tests in America and other parts of the world.
In contrast with air bursts, local fallout can be a hazard over a much larger downwind area than that which is affected by blast and thermal radiation.
But the fallout may eventually be even greater in southern Europe and Ireland. These countries are already struggling to deal with the onerous austerity packages that are the price of their rescues.
The heaviest fallout would be limited to the area at or downwind from the explosion, and 80 percent of the fallout would occur during the first 24 hours.
Initial nuclear radiation will be a significant hazard with smaller weapons, but the fallout hazard can be ignored as there is essentially no local fallout from an air burst.
As we continue to confront the fallout of the global financial and economic crisis, meeting this challenge is more important than ever.
For many, the fallout from the Greek crisis has proved what they had suspected all along: that the euro zone needs more fiscal co-ordination in order to work.
There is a lot of fallout after the police bribe was made public.
Evacuation, temporary shelter and iodine pills are the chief weapons for protecting civilians against nuclear fallout, experts say.
Add in the fallout from the "robo-signing" scandal, in which Banks were accused of using flawed and possibly fraudulent foreclosure processes, and mortgage approvals will stay sluggish.
Then, emergency workers were sent in with little or no protection to deal with the fallout.
Some cloud modellers are considering using the fact that ash, unlike fallout, can be seen from afar to make better calculations.
They had no protection from the fallout.
Outside of their polarity, the horrific relationship fallout boils down to he-said-she-said -- a classic case of a war of words.
Yet the fallout from the scandal has not damaged the church as much as the gloomiest prophets foretold.
Many people believe that a fallout shelter will not protect them from an atomic explosion.
If I hadn't changed its name, I could have done all the same things without the adverse fallout.
For a time the fallout was deadly.
Though his record of bringing funds into his home state secured him re-election in 1970, the immediate fallout from the scandal was to cost him his position as Senate whip.
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