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To: My Favorite Headache
Check out this website to test a small nuke vs. a large nuke going off in your city:

Bomb Blast Mapper and Radiation Mapper

A small 1 megaton nuke would kill over 1 million people if detonated in down town Portland ..... and the radiation would wipe out all life for about 200 miles traveling East.

15 posted on 03/12/2002 11:01:15 AM PST by ex-Texan
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To: ex-Texan
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18 posted on 03/12/2002 11:09:23 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
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To: ex-Texan
My post was not meant to push the panic button .....

Just illustrating what is possible with even a small hydrogen bomb going off (E.g. A 1 megaton bomb = 8 x the power the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bomb). Those small, portable 'suitcase nukes' everybody is talking about might have about 30% of the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

20 posted on 03/12/2002 11:14:15 AM PST by ex-Texan
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