What a Nuclear Attack Would Do

PROECTED LOCALLY:

Historic District, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
> Population: 2,800,427
> Casualties from 100 kt detonation: 140,730 deaths, 247,980 injuries
> Population within blast range of 102.3 sq. miles: 739,488 (26%)
> Casualties from 800 kt detonation: 313,370 deaths, 522,010 injuries
> Population within blast range of 409.3 sq. miles: 1.5 million (54%)

Melly Alazraki, wallst.com

In early May, Russian state TV broadcast simulations of nuclear attacks on the United Kingdom that seemed to demonstrate how easily Russia could annihilate that nation. As the world follows the Russian invasion into Ukraine and the horrors of war, menacing rhetoric from President Vladimir Putin continues to escalate – most recently as Sweden and Finland have been seeking NATO membership – with several threats of nuclear warfare made.

If the West was lulled into a sense of security during the relative period of calm since the Cold War, it now has to come to grips with this long unthinkable notion. From intercontinental ballistic missiles that can travel thousands of miles to submarines that can launch nuclear weapons, an all-out nuclear war could reach anywhere on the planet, including the U.S. (Here’s how far the most powerful missiles can travel.)

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