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Today 130,000 Hiroshima like bombings are possible

Today we live in a world with over 23,000 nuclear bombs wired to destroy life many times over. These weapons have the combined firepower of over 130,000 Hiroshimas.

Scope of nuclear war today is unfathomable, Joplin Independent: Hastings   2010-08-06 16: by Robert Dodge, M.D.Sixty five years ago this week, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a flash. Instantly the nuclear bombs that caused those flashes killed over 200,000 people with scores of thousands more dying in the subsequent days and years resulting from those bombs. A flash that forever changed our world in ways we still struggle with today.
Today we live in a world with over 23,000 nuclear bombs wired to destroy life many times over. These weapons have the combined firepower of over 130,000 Hiroshimas. Their use either by accident, miscalculation or intention would result in the greatest public health threat to our communities, nation and world.
…The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our thinking and thus we drift toward unparalled catastrophe –Albert Einstein

Joplin Independent:Scope of nuclear war today is unfathomable

August 7, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons