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...President or his constitutionally designated successor through the White House Communications Agency to the Pentagon, would constitute an order to fire some combination of the nation's 9,480 strategic warheads, with a cumulative destructive force equivalent to 3,505 megatons (1 megaton = 1 million tons of TNT) at a preselected set of targets inside the U.S.S.R...
...lone warhead of a Soviet SS-13 missile comes swooping down. Six thousand feet, directly above the intersection of Interstate Highways 94 and 75, the 1-megaton bomb-only a fiftieth as large as the Soviets' largest warhead-explodes with the force of 1 million tons of TNT...
...possibility of launch on warning. Besides, the notion of a surgical strike against land-based missiles is a fantasy. One of the more popular scenarios in the U.S. stipulates that to knock out Minuteman, we would have to use 2,000 megatons [the equivalent of 2 billion tons of TNT]. That's about ten tons for every inhabitant of the U.S. That would not be a 'surgical strike' at all. It would...
...today's thermonuclear standards the bombs were puny and primitive, the equivalent of only 12,500 and 22,000 tons of TNT each. But in Hiroshima 140,000 people died on the day of the attack and in the weeks immediately after it. Nagasaki lost 70,000 people. Tens of thousands more were severely injured. Even today, leukemia and other ailments traceable to the radiation exposure continue to take lives...
...today's superpower standards, a Nagasaki-type bomb would be puny-the equivalent of a mere 10,000 tons of TNT. But that might be more than enough to terrorize an enemy, or crush a nonnuclear neighbor. -By Frederic Golden...