Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
While the Russians would primarily be aiming at economic targets, according to the study's script, their attack would take an enormous human toll because U.S. oil production facilities are near Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and other large cities. In the first hour after the strike, more than 5 million Americans would be killed by searing heat, explosive force, high winds, fire and crumbling buildings, if the Soviet warheads exploded aboveground. (Airbursts suck up relatively little debris to settle back to earth later as radioactive fallout.) If the Soviet missiles were detonated at ground level, immediate fatalities would...
...week following the attack, says the OTA report, those living near the targets would be "in a state of shock, with their lives disrupted and further drastic changes inevitable ... People would face many immediate tasks: care of the injured, burial of the dead, search and rescue, and fire fighting." A major problem would be the treatment of the tens of thousands of third-degree burn victims. At present notes the report, the combined facilities of all U.S. hospitals can treat no more than 2,000 cases of severe burns...
Believing, probably correctly, that Bonanno's motives were more sinister, the commission decided to move against him. Bonanno writes that Sam Giancana of Chicago, Angelo Bruno of Philadelphia and Santo Trafficante of Tampa were appointed to do the job. Bonanno was kidnaped by two gunmen near his lawyer's Park Avenue apartment. Referring to himself by his initials, Bonanno confirms the theory that he was held captive near New York City while the commission debated his fate: "J.B. was kidnaped, kept in [illegible] house on parkway, 18 months...
...dons were aghast when they learned that the authorities had seized Bonanno's book. An emergency meeting was called near Fort Lauderdale, but no decision was reached. The Mafia commission-established to "make law, to settle trouble, and to guarantee justice for all" -once again did not know what to do with the proud old man who liked to write his own rules, and his own history...