4 REASONS WHY NUCLEAR WAR IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK — AND 5 WAYS TO HELP PREVENT IT
Why Nobody Will Win A Nuclear War
The two nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 by US bombers had an explosive yield of the equivalent of about 15 kilotons of dynamite and 20 kilotons of dynamite respectively. More than 210,000 civilians died by the end of that year and many more suffered acute injuries following the blasts.
By today’s standards, these yields are considered “low”. Modern nuclear weapons in Russia and the U.S. are mostly thermonuclear weapons and have explosive yields of the equivalent of at least 100 kilotons of dynamite — (at least 5 times higher than those dropped at the end of WW2) and some are much higher. It has been estimated that one 100-kiloton nuclear weapon dropped on New York City could lead to 583,160 fatalities, 892,769 people injured in London, and 1,387,830 injured in Paris.
In the case of nuclear war even with a limited nuclear exchange, there would be so much initial intense heat and radiation from the blasts, many people and buildings in the target zone would simply be vaporized. If a number of nuclear weapons targeted many cities in a country, an enormous humanitarian catastrophe would be created that could lead to the end of civilization as we know it. Overwhelming climate changes would follow, with…
