Word: megatons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...megaton nuclear attack on Boston would form a crater a half mile wide and 300 feet deep, Dr.Howard H. Hiatt, dean of the School of Public Health, told an estimated 700 doctors and students Saturday. More than two millions would be killed instantly, and at least five million would die from injuries and radiation. With 80 per cent of the area's medical facilities devastated, and only one doctor for every 17,000 in need of care, there would be no chance of effective medical treatment, Hiatt said...
...symposium began with an immediate analysis of the consequences of a 20-megaton nuclear assault upon Boston. The speakers detonated one devastating statistic after another: 2.2 million immediate fatalities, 80 percent of medical facilities in the Boston area totally destroyed, all frame and brick buildings within six miles levelled (so much for Widener), 17,000 injured persons for every healthy doctor. And, of course, undetermined genetic effects to haunt future generations...