Modeling suggests that if dropped on America's largest cities, a new nuclear warhead would cause death and widespread destruction.
Modeling of what a new nuclear warhead being developed by the United States military would do to cities in America shows that were the warheads turned on their own people, they would be capable of killing millions of people with a single detonation.The Department of Defense announced last week that it was developing a new variant of the B61 gravity bomb, which was among a series of weapons first produced in the 1960s during the Cold War nuclear arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Damage would occur to buildings from the Inglewood neighborhood, near Los Angeles International Airport, to South Gate, Pasadena and Griffith Park, the site of the famed Hollywood sign.Similarly, if discharged over central Chicago, Illinois, the blast would cover only a small portion of the spread-out city and its suburbs, with around half radiating out over Lake Michigan.
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