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Worrying nuclear map shows areas where 75% of population would die in WW3
A Cold War-era map shows how the US would cope in the aftermath of a nuclear conflict - and the predictions aren't good.
chilling Cold War-era map paints a dire picture for the United States following a nuclear conflict, with estimates suggesting up to 75% of the population in the worst impacted zones could perish. The world's nuclear powers include the US, UK, France, Russia, and China, as well as Pakistan, India, and North Korea.
Israel is also presumed to possess nuclear weapons, although it has never officially acknowledged this, while Iran is progressing its substantial uranium enrichment program. A 1986 study by Institute of Medicine researchers William Daugherty, Barbara Levi, and Frank Von Hippel analyzed the potential aftermath of a nuclear strike on the US.
They focused on an attack targeting America's nuclear arsenal, specifically Minuteman missile silos—land-based nukes from the 1950s—which would explode where they are stored. This would lead to extensive radiation spread throughout the country.
According to the map, radioactive fallout would be carried by prevailing winds from west to east, engulfing the nation. The researchers stated: "We have made the usual assumption that each of the 1,116 US missile silos and missile launch-control centers would be struck by two 0.5-megaton warheads."
At the time, the Soviet Union had approximately 3,000 of these warheads. The scientists identified the most dangerous areas on the map, pinpointing zones where radiation levels would exceed 3,500 rads.
Within this region... more than three-quarters of the population would die," the scientist concluded. These are represented in the black sections of the map.
The experts described the horrific sequence of events following a nuclear disaster: "Nuclear explosions create a great deal of short-lived radioactivity - mostly associated with fission products. We have made the standard assumption in our calculations that one-half of the yield from the attacking weapons would be from fission."
In their detailed description of the aftermath, the experts emphasized: "In the case of airbursts, the fireball would carry this radioactivity into the upper atmosphere, from which it would slowly filter down as a rather diffuse distribution called 'global fallout' over a period of months to years. In the case of an attack on so-called 'hard' targets such as missile silos, which can withstand high over-pressures, the nuclear weapons would have to be exploded so close to the ground that surface material would be sucked into the fireball, mixed with the vaporized bomb products, and carried by the buoyancy of the fireball into the upper atmosphere."
The report by Princeton University scholars, titled Casualties Due to the Blast, Heat, and Radioactive Fallout from Various Hypothetical Nuclear Attacks on the United States, paints a grim picture of the aftermath of a nuclear strike. They detailed: "There, much of the bomb material and surface material would condense into particles, a large fraction of which would descend to the surface again within 24 hours in an intense swath of 'local fallout' downwind from the target."
The study concludes with a dire caution: "It is our hope that national decision-makers will develop a better understanding of the 'collateral' consequences of hypothetical first strikes and of the enormous destructive capacity of the weapons that would survive. That understanding should make them less likely to seek counterforce capabilities or to fear such attacks from the other side."
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