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...Herbert L. Abrams, Cook Professor of Radiology, said in a news conference Tuesday that 86 million people would die immediately after a 400-megaton attack on "urban and population centers: in the United States, and an additional 50 million fatalities "are anticipated" during the shelter period of several weeks following the attack...
...picture that will remain longest in most viewers' minds will doubtless be the simulation of a 15-megaton thermonuclear fireball devastating Omaha. The $87,000 worth of special effects lavished on that sequence conveyed as much vivid horror as any megabucks sci-fi movie. But it would be a pity if that memory distracted attention from other merits of the CBS News series The Defense of the United States, which aired for an hour on each of five successive nights last week. Complex issues, like that of high-technology vs. simpler weapons, usually the preserve of scholarly tomes, were...
...limited nuclear war victory, the United States may lose a few cities and "x" per cent of the population. But as long as we have more powerful weapons, we can hurt the Russians more. Perhaps Boston was one city sacrificed in the new war of nuclear possibilities. One 20-megaton bomb explodes over the State House. The Prudential Tower, the Federal Reserve Building and all the other familiar landmarks crack like matchsticks under the explosion's force, leaving nothing but rubble in a four mile radious swathe around the epicenter. The flash of light that preceeds the blast destroys Cambridge...
Political statements by the Mormon presidency usually resemble its attack on the Equal Rights Amendment in 1978. The complaint against the MX, although couched in moral terms, was not labeled a revelation, and it addressed worldly concerns. With the three-megaton missiles shuttling exclusively around Utah and Nevada, the presidency said, "one segment of the population would bear a highly disproportionate share of the burden...
...Soviets have decided to wipe out the Harvard-MIT braintrust by dropping a 25-megaton nuclear warhead in Cambridge, but the CIA finds out in time to warn President Reagan, who notifies Governor King, who calls Chester E. Hallice...