Vampire question

[nontacitare]

It's been too long since I've posted in livejournal. So I return with a question - could a vampire survive an atomic bomb?

Comments

[skylark913]

The initial hit, yes, probably. However I believe they would succumb because all the blood-filled folk would have died off.

[nontacitare]

I read a short story along those lines once. A vampire couple fled Earth in a space ship, and arrived on a planet with intelligent life. They were ecstatic to learn that the inhabitants had never heard of vampires, but soon learned that the people from this planet had evolved from vegetables and thus had no vampire-drinkable blood.

[chronarchy]

What kind of vampire? An Interviewed one? An Eastern European one? A sparkly one? I think that's the first question to get out of the way.

In general, though, if Indiana Jones can survive a nuclear bomb from inside a refrigerator, I'm sure a quality coffin would allow the same protection.

[nontacitare]

I decided to leave the type of vampire open to interpretation, as it might broaden the conversation.

However, I believe that Anne Rice, Stephanie Meyer and Eastern European vampires can all be killed by fire, so I suppose an atom bomb could take them out.

[drackan27]

If the vampire is in the initial blast radius, then it should be destroyed because the fiery damage will outpace its regenerative abilities.

If the vampire is outside the initial blast radius, then it should be able to survive the nuclear radiation since it doesn't usually affect the undead. However the vampire would become radioactive and spread deadly radiation to everything they touched.

The EMP wave produced by an atomic bomb could destroy a vampire by causing electrical shorts in the wiring of a vampire's lair, starting a fire that might eventually consume a vampire.

And finally the thermal radiation released in the flash of the bomb might destroy vampires at close range and cause non-regenerating burns and eye injuries to vampires in the distance since the first part of the pulse (there are two in nuclear explosions) is in the ultraviolet spectrum.

[nontacitare]

Wow, that is a thorough answer. I like the idea of a radioactive vampire. There's a story in that.

So how about a Highlander style Immortal? I know of at least one who came back after being burned alive at the stake.

[drackan27]

Going by the Highlander TV series, the Highlander immortal would be killed for a short time and then come back to life as long as a piece of shrapnel kicked up by the blast wave doesn't decapitate him or her.