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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...
...released last month by the Office of Technology Assessment. An arm of Congress, the OTA analyzed several levels of nuclear exchange. Among them was a classic case of controlled nuclear war: an attack on U.S. oil refineries by ten Soviet SS-18 missiles, each carrying eight warheads of one megaton force. Such an attack would destroy an estimated 64% of U.S. petroleum-refining capacity, along with railways, petrochemical plants, and storage facilities near the refineries...
...Harold Brown argued this point last month before several Senate committees. Yet two major issues lead one to wonder if the proposed budget is just the bare minimum. First, with regard to the nuclear deterrent, former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara determined that an adequate nuclear deterrent was 200-400 megaton equivalents, enough explosive to destroy about 30% of Soviet population and 70% of industry in a second strike. Today the U.S. deploys over 10,000 strategic nuclear warheads, many times the McNamara deterrent, as well as 20,000 "tactical" nuclear warheads. Thus the nuclear weapons load grows, but the target...
...bona-fide Toga Party, or so they claimed. Since no one was sufficiently familiar with the rites of Toga, participants behaved according to American '70s' custom. Beer and vodka flowed, the usual dislocated mutterings that pass for conversation at such gatherings coalesced into a dull roar, and the megaton stereo boomed out a never-ending series of syncopated disco thuds. Occasionally someone would chase a friend through the crowd threatening affectionately to straighten her (his?) toga or die trying, but onlookers just smiled timidly and continued to sip their punch...