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According to U.S. experts, a 20-megaton nuclear warhead, 1,000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, detonated over Boston would destroy everything within a four-mile radius. Up to ten miles away from ground zero, fire storms would devastate all buildings and trees. Of the 3 million inhabitants of metropolitan Boston, 2.2 million would be killed outright. Almost every survivor would be maimed, burned or in shock. Of the 6,000 physicians in the area, only 900 would be fit enough to treat the injured. In time, survivors would develop new and virtually incurable ailments...
...Carter mused autobiographically, he omitted stories about his years as a struggling farmhand in Plains, and focused instead on his "background in physics" and his tour of duty aboard one of the nation's first nuclear submarines. He gave a mournful lecture on the power of the megaton--"a lot of explosives"--and gallantly accepted "the most important single responsibility on the shoulders of a president:" preventing nuclear war. More generally, he described himself as "part of a great continuum" of leaders who devote all of their energy to facing "serious matters...
...radio exchange would have been ludicrous had it not taken place between two members of an Air Force team searching frantically for a nine-megaton warhead, 450 times the yield of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The warhead was blown from the Titan II missile that exploded into flames near Damascus, Ark., two weeks ago. Despite pleas by nearby residents for reassurance that there was no danger of toxic fumes or radiation, the Air Force was determined to keep secret for a time the embarrassing fact that the warhead had been lost and then found a short time later...
Moore' Christ-like face lends an ironic dimension to J.B.'s suffering. Even blind and mutilated, the victim of some apocalyptic atomic blast, Moore's J.B. unleashes a 50-megaton cry to God for justice, for a reason. He cannot accept the logic of the grinning, trembling priest--David Van Taylor shines as this Father O'Malley through Stanley Kubrick's lens. The priest offers a straight-forward answer to J.B.'s questions and MacLeish's Question: "Your sin is simple. You were born...
...megaton detonation in Boston, he said, would form a crater 300 feet deep and a half mile wide. More than two million people would be killed instantly; another five million or more would die later from injuries and radiation. And with roughly 17,000 survivors in need of care per doctor, Hiatt said effective medical treatment would be impossible...