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...nation in discussions on the threat of nuclear war. Although the focus of the week will be on seminars and lectures, the group is also mailing out kits to local coordinators with directions on where to place Ground Zero markers and details of the effects of a 1-megaton bomb dropped on their city or town...
...effective group in the antinuclear movement. "Our credibility is as a scientific, single-issue organization," says Director Thomas Halsted. "Our issue is nuclear war and its medical consequences. That's it." In an ongoing series of symposiums across the country, members lecture about the horrific consequences of a 20-megaton bomb explosion, from the moment of impact to the long-term effects of radiation sickness. "As soon as you dwell on the effects of a nuclear bomb," says Halsted, "the coffee cups stop rattling...
...TANGO ECHO BRAVO ROMEO NOVEMBER, once transmitted by the President or his constitutionally designated successor through the White House Communications Agency to the Pentagon, would constitute an order to fire some combination of the nation's 9,480 strategic warheads, with a cumulative destructive force equivalent to 3,505 megatons (1 megaton = 1 million tons of TNT) at a preselected set of targets inside the U.S.S.R...
...deter Soviet aggression; 3) since nuclear weapons are deployed in huge numbers on both sides, the U.S. must have a "force posture" that will dissuade the Soviets from throwing their considerable nuclear weight around. It is not necessary for the U.S. to match the Soviets missile for missile, megaton for megaton, but it is necessary that the U.S. have the recognized capability to make the Soviets pay an unacceptably high price for aggression. Deterrence is more than just a matter of quantity and quality of weapons; it is also a matter of plans, procedures, command structure and vigorous, ongoing testing...
...warheads, vs. only 7,000 for the Soviet Union. (The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, whose estimates are given wide credence by nuclear experts, places the Soviet arsenal at 8,000 warheads. The Soviet weapons, moreover, far outstrip their U.S. counterparts in megaton force...