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Today's Topic: CAN COCKROACHES SURVIVE A NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE?🤔

TL; DW (Too Long; Didn’t Watch)

Cockroaches can withstand up to 900 times their body weight, or about 2 pounds.
2 pounds is equal to about 0.02 joules of force resistance (to the average cockroach).
A nuke's blast produces 63,000 petajoules in head to head confrontation. ( Peta = 15 more zeros on the end of that number 😲)
If far enough away they COULD potentially survive... a little, but not much.

AFTER the explosion

A human can handle about 1000 rads of radiation.
A cockroach, depending on variety, can do 5,000 - 10,000 rads.
As fallout spreads, everything INCLUDING cockroaches, within a two kilometer radius dies within 48 hours (based on Hiroshima).
Nowadays, nukes are MUCH stornger and more radioactive, leaving cockroaches dead with the rest of us... and Twinkies, that would have already molded.
A Braconidae Wasp could actually survive, being able to handle 180,000 rads and still be able to reproduce.