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- Title: Preventing War in the Nuclear Age
- Author : Dietrich Fischer
- Release Date : January 01, 1984
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4760 KB
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The discovery of nuclear arms has given enormous destructive potential to humankind. For the first time we possess, or are approaching, the capability to end all human life.
No attempt is made here to describe adequately the dangers of nuclear war; most of us will have heard about those dangers many times. Nevertheless, it is necessary to be clear about the magnitude of potential destruction. For this reason I will begin by repeating briefly some of the most important figures that are now common knowledge. I will also list a number of possible reasons why a nuclear war might break out.
The world stockpile of nuclear arms today includes about 50,000 warheads with a combined explosive power of roughly 20,000 million tons of TNT, or 1,600,000 times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. That bomb alone killed an estimated 130,000 people. Yet it was small compared to modern hydrogen bombs. A large hydrogen bomb of 20 megatons has over 1000 times the explosive power of the Hiroshima bomb, which had about 12.5 kilotons. The Hiroshima bomb itself had about 1000 times the explosive power of a large conventional bomb (up to ten tons of TNT). This means that a modern hydrogen bomb compares to the Hiroshima bomb like that bomb to a conventional bomb. A single large hydrogen bomb has more explosive power than all the bombs dropped during World War II, about 2 megatons. A single 20-megaton bomb dropped on New York City could cause more than 20 million deaths, if winds carried the radioactive fallout into populated areas. Three hundred one-megaton bombs, about 3 percent of the Soviet Union̢۪s arsenal, would be sufficient to kill the 60 percent of the United States population that live in urban areas, and a similar ratio applies to Soviet cities. Most European countries have a higher population density and could be annihilated by a fraction of 1 percent of the superpowers̢۪ arsenals.
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