Can Roaches Survive A Nuclear Blast?

With the finding of the mutated butterflies at Japan’s nuclear disaster site and all the speculation of what other species may have been affected, it got me thinking about the lowly German roach. It has been said that if there is a nuclear war, roaches will be the only survivors. Is this truth or myth? Well, of course, if they were at ground 0, the blast itself would kill them. But what if they survived the blast? It is said that these little critters that we chase around with a can of Raid, would inherit the earth. The myth busters put this popular belief to the test and found that ...