myths

Can a cockroach survive a nuclear blast? Part of it depends on where the roach is sitting when the bomb goes off. For example, if the roach is sitting at ground zero, then no a roach cannot survive a nuclear blast. If the blast can turn sand to glass and incinerate steel, then obviously no roach is going to survive if it is on the surface.As you get further out from ground zero, the concern is radiation exposure. Roaches do much better after exposure to radiation than people do, and there are other bugs that do better than roaches. Bugs easily survive doses that would kill humans. Bugs even survive doses of radiation 100 times greater than the lethal dose for humans. So it's your choice.