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The economic, health, agriculture, consequences of just one nuclear bomb

For New York, the Federal Bank estimated it would cost $11.9 billion just to replace the World Trade Center complex, equating to $193 billion per square kilometer. Across almost every cleanup level, the economic consequences for New York meet or exceed $10 trillion. This is roughly the annual GDP of the entire US economy. Just one Hiroshima-size nuclear bomb could do this, to one city.

Breaking Free From the Nuclear Deterrence Scam, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Robert Green, 28 Feb 2011, “…………Economic Consequences. In April 2005, an internal report for US Homeland Security appeared on the web. Titled Economic Consequences of a Rad/Nuc Attack, it examined what it would take to recover from the detonation of just one nuclear device in various cities. Much depends on the size of bomb and level of radioactive fallout decontamination, but the authors concluded the costs would be catastrophic.

For New York, the Federal Bank estimated it would cost $11.9 billion just to replace the World Trade Center complex, equating to $193 billion per square kilometer. Across almost every cleanup level, the economic consequences for New York meet or exceed $10 trillion. This is roughly the annual GDP of the entire US economy. Just one Hiroshima-size nuclear bomb could do this, to one city.

Health Consequences. In 2004, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War published their findings regarding casualties from a Hiroshima-size nuclear warhead detonated over New York. Total fatalities were estimated at about 60,000. Another 60,000 would be seriously injured, utterly overwhelming any hospitals surviving the explosion. Again, all this from just one tactical nuclear bomb like the one I was trained to drop on a military airfield outside Leningrad, on one city.Agriculture Consequences. A Scientific American article, published in January last year, reported on recent climate research about a regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan in which about 100 Hiroshima-size nuclear devices would be detonated over cities. Apart from the mutual carnage, radioactive contamination and destruction across South Asia, enough smoke from firestorms would be generated to cripple global agriculture. Plunging temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere would cause hundreds of millions of people to starve to death, even in countries far from the conflict. Had a nuclear weapon been detonated over Christchurch, it would be a radiated wasteland. Water supplies would be poisoned; emergency teams could not be deployed without wearing heavy protective clothing. There would be unmitigated terror, and no hope.

Robert Green: Breaking Free From the Nuclear Deterrence Scam

March 1, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, weapons and war