Search results
Oct 20, 2022 · An airburst of a 300-kiloton explosion would produce a blast with an overpressure of over 5 pounds per square inch (or 0.3 atmospheres) up to 4.7 kilometers (2.9 miles) from the target. This is enough pressure to destroy most houses, gut skyscrapers, and cause widespread fatalities less than 10 seconds after the explosion. Radioactive fallout.
Jun 29, 2023 · June 29, 2023 6:00 AM EDT. Tegmark is a professor doing AI research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. W e know that an all-out U.S.-Russia nuclear war would be bad. But how bad,...
- 2 min
- Max Tegmark
Jan 23, 2024 · Despite decades of arms control agreements there are still about 13,000 nuclear warheads globally, 90% of them Russian and American. Six other countries are declared nuclear powers: the UK,...
Dec 1, 2023 · December 1, 2023. 8 min read. Who Would Take the Brunt of an Attack on U.S. Nuclear Missile Silos? These fallout maps show the toll of a potential nuclear attack on missile silos in the...
Mar 7, 2024 · If it seems alarmist to anticipate the horrifying aftermath of a nuclear attack, consider this: The United States and Ukraine governments have been planning for this scenario for at least two...
Mar 18, 2024 · SC/15630. 18 March 2024. Nuclear Warfare Risk at Highest Point in Decades, Secretary-General Warns Security Council, Urging Largest Arsenal Holders to Find Way Back to Negotiating Table....
Jul 21, 2023 · Updated. Jul 21, 2023, 9:37 AM PDT. A US Navy nuclear test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. FPG/Getty Images. As Russia escalates its nuclear threats, the fear of a nuclear bomb is...
