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Research into nuclear strikes – considering possibility of terrorism

Surprise nuclear strike? Here’s how we’ll figure out who did it, Science By Richard Stone Mar. 11, 2016 “……..The most likely nuclear terrorism scenario, experts say, is a bomb set off on a city street. Past experience offers only a sketchy picture of the resulting devastation. The atomic bombs the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 detonated about 500 meters above those cities. During the subsequent half-century, while the United States refined its atomic arsenal, nearly all tests were in the air or underground, not in citylike environments. …….http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/surprise-nuclear-strike-heres-how-well-figure-out-who-did-it

March 12, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general