Talk:Damage 2.0/@comment-175.156.197.215-20131213152230/@comment-88.113.187.100-20131213192612

...I think you should go read up a bit on both strong toxins and radiation exposure. They're nowhere close, *especially* when it comes to short-term effects. Get dosed with a strong nerve agent and you pretty much drop there and then with your remaining lifespan counted in minutes at most, for example. Radiation? Pfft. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki it took days or weeks for people to die of radiation poisoning; in Chernobyl some of the engineers literally went to take a look at the exposed reactor core with the main immediate effects being a sort of sunburn in the face (few of them were still alive two weeks later ofc). And then there's those few guys with the dubious honour of having gotten deliberately poisoned with radioactive polonium...

Radiation is by and large a slow killer. You need something like neutron-bomb level dosages for it to drop people fast.