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...None megaton nuclear bomb explodes over downtown Boston. The vast destructive force of the blast levels every building in the city. Huge amounts of deadly radioactive fallout cascade from the explosion. Boston is engulfed in a raging firestorm. Everyone within four miles of the blast--everyone in Cambridge, Everett, Dorchester. Watertown--is killed istantly. Ninety percent of the survivors elsewhere require immediate attention for severe burns. But because most hospitals have been destroyed an most health workers are dead, each person must wait in agony for 26 days to be seen by a physician for just five minutes. Epidemic diseases...
...personnel, borne off by cuts in all echelons-sparing, of course, the most exalted executive suites, where gloom and consternation flourish nonetheless. There is no smart little outfit that has tapped into a new style or audience. No big company has been totally successful at using their 20-megaton talent to fend off the incursions of recession. "Record sales are flat," says an industry executive. "Everybody is making a nickel or a dime, but nobody is making millions...
...urged an increased effort to abolish nuclear weapons. The meeting was the first of several that will take place between emissaries of Pope John Paul II and leaders of four of the five recognized nuclear powers. Hiatt and three other experts told the president that casualties from a single megaton explosion in Washington, D.C., would overwhelm the area's medical facilities, a suggestion Reagan reportedly did not dispute. Hiatt said that Reagan acknowledged during the 20-minute meeting that a nuclear exchange would "end civilization as we know it" and that it is impossible to "reconcile this with thoughts that...
...yesterday's meeting, Hiatt and three other experts told the president that the casualties of even a single megaton explosion in Washington, D.C., would overwhelm the majority of the area's medical facilities. "In addition to which all the hospitals would be gone," he said...
...Soviet missiles are more of a mixed bag. The clumsy, inaccurate SS-4, first deployed in 1959, has a range of 1,200 miles and a single, one-megaton warhead. The obsolescent SS-5 can throw its megaton warhead some 2,500 miles. But the SS-20, with its 3,000-mile range, is a formidable weapon. Each of its three, separately targetable 150-kiloton warheads is accurate within...