.. and the definition of a deadly amount radiation is????

Maybe it's because the troops trusted their shockingly inneffective NBC suits as much as you trust your "instruments".

could be. the theory is that the B-C weapons were old, and rather than havung a direct immediate effect, there were long term problems instead.
all my shockingly inaccurate instruments are calibrated every three years. i never use just one meter, i use several and get an average ( if there were to be an event)i have new ones as well as oldies, and they all give the same reading for any sample.
Oh did i tell you that i TAUGHT at NBC school in the marines? my class was, you guessed it, the N PART.

..Shows how ill informed the military is.
I hope you and your instruments all the best after we're nuked.

Well if you reside somewhere in the Midwest your readings might not be anything Exciting but over here on the west coast where we get that Jet Streem wafting in from East Asia , the readings tend to fluctuate rather widly and being down wind from Cam Pendlton Live Fore Gurrery Range, where they are firing DU shells all day long, well they do have allot of Cancer over there and the Theere is Livermore Calif and The Sanfrancisco area , they tend to GLOW in the dark too...

So it just kinda depends on where you take your readings... (-;

thats true. my background readings here are about half the national average. your elevated readings are probably due to either being in a higher elevation, or soil types. Mabe your near an old reactor or missile site also, there is a lot more contamination from these sources than is generally known. as for DU rounds, we already covered that topic earlier. Fallout from overseas tests can sometimes be detected, usually after a rain. It sometimes takes as much as three years for the residual fallout to filter thru the atmosphere, as it may have been injected high in the atmosphere and orbits the globe, loosing much of its radioactivity before it lands....
which leads us to our next lesson, decay rates. anybody know anything about this topic? I will check back WITH YALL later. ( im refering to the decay rate after a nuclear explosion, as thats my area of expertise.)THERE ARE HOWEVER SIMPLE FORMULAS for decay rates which apply to all radioactives. also, we will delve into the half life of a given isotope.

I went to NBC/nco officer school to devinci!

The fact that youve never heard of an EMP emmitter Rambill doesnt surprise me at all!

They do exist however!!!

... back in the 80s, we had an incident where we captured a Mig fighter. The electronics were all vacuum tube . Turns out that the old vacuum tube stuff is much more resistant to EMP than our hi tech solid state stuff. also, we were using all our carbon fiber stuff for building fighters, while they were using shet metal, mig welded. thier welding technology was ahead of ours allowing them to be able to use cheap sheet metal. it was just after this that mig/ tig welding began being widely used here.

ok ill drop a little bit of it....
the half life of a given isotope is the time it takes to decay to half its origional level of radioactivity. The nasty ones are the ones that have a fast decay rate, as they are "spewing" at a much faster rate.
most of the stuff created/released by a nuclear explosion has short half lives, from a few milliseconds to several hours.