Blast, Overpressure, Fire, Radiation - What The 15 Kiloton Weapon Dropped On Hiroshima And The 20 Kiloton Weapon Dropped On Nagasaki Tells Us About The 10-15 Megaton Weapons In Today's Nuclear Arsenal - One Flash And You're Ash!

NUCLEAR WARFARE HAS COME A LONG WAY IN THE 70 YEARS SINCE THE UNITED STATES DROPPED NUCLEAR BOMBS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI JAPAN. YEP, AUGUST 6TH, 1945 - THE DATE IS A REAL GAME CHANGER FOR HUMANITY. THINK, JUST 42 YEARS EARLIER HUMANS COULD NOT EVEN FLY UNTIL THE WRIGHT BROTHERS PROVED IT IN 1903!

YEARS OF RESEARCH AND MILLIONS OF SCIENTIFIC AND MILITARY MANHOURS HAVE BEEN POURED INTO PERFECTING THE ULTIMATE IN REMOTE, MECHANIZED DEATH - TODAY'S MODERN NUCLEAR WEAPON. THE HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED, COMPUTERIZED AND EXTREMELY TECHNICAL WEAPONS CAN WIPE OUT ENTIRE POPULATION CENTERS IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE - LITERALLY. WITHIN MEGASECONDS THE DETONATION OF A HIGH YIELD WARHEAD WILL UTTERLY DESTROY EVERYTHING WITHIN IT'S BLAST CIRCLE AND IT'S EFFECTS WILL LINGER AS THE INITIAL BLAST AND SHOCKWAVE RECEDE.

NOTHING COULD BE MORE IMPERSONAL AND SO UTTERLY EVIL THAN LAUNCHING A NUCLEAR ATTACK ON AN ENEMY. THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DESTRUCTION AND HARM THAT THESE WEAPONS ARE CAPABLE OF HAS HAD A DETERRENT EFFECT SO FAR, BUT THIS HAS NOT STOPPED COUNTRIES FROM WANTING TO ACQUIRE THE WEAPONS AND DEPLOY THEM IN THEIR ARSENALS. WE WILL PROBABLY SEE THE NEXT USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST OR PERHAPS INDIA-PAKISTAN - YOU SEE, THESE IDIOTS KNOW ONE THING THE ONLY THING THE OTHER SIDE UNDERSTANDS, IS, POWER.  

THE NUMBERS AND TYPES OF NUKE WEAPONS VARK FROM THE THEATER BATTLEFIELD NUKES TO THE 50 MEGATON TSAR BOMB. IN THE 1980'S THE "MIRV WARHEAD" WAS DEVELOPED AND DEPLOYED.

Testing of the Peacekeeper reentry vehicles, all eight (ten capable) fired from only one missile. Each line represents the path of an individual warhead.

THIS WARHEAD IS DESIGNED TO ATTACK MULTIPLE TARGETS ATOP A SINGLE MISSILE. USED ON THE LGM-30 MINUTEMAN ICBM's AND TRIDENT II SLBM MISSILES, THEY ARE CAPABLE OF HOLDING UP TO 14 WARHEADS. SO IF ONE OF THESE PUPPIES IS LAUNCHED, 14 PREPROGRAMMED TARGETS WILL BE IDENTIFIED AND DESTROYED - JUST MIND BOGGLING.

THE US USES A 3 POINT NUCLEAR DEFENSE, MEANING THAT THEY USE AN AIR DEFENSE, AN ICBM DEFENSE AND A SUBMARINE DEFENSE. IF ANY ONE OR TWO OF THE DEFENSES ARE TAKEN OUT THERE WILL BE AT LEAST ONE IN RESERVE TO CARRY OUT THE MISSION. THE US WENT CRAZY BUILDING ASSORTED NUKE WEAPONS AND IN THE 1999 THE US ARSENAL HAD OVER 12,000 NUKES, BUT EVEN CRAZIER THE US ARSENAL HAD OVER 30,000 IN THE MID-60'S WHEN THE "SOVIET PERIL" WAS BEING TOUTED BY ALL THE RIGHT WINGERS AND WAR HAWKS. THE US HAS SPENT NEARLY 9 TRILLION DOLLARS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE WEAPONS. NO PALTRY SUM. THE US HAS CONDUCTED OVER 1,000 NUCLEAR TESTS, MANY ABOVE GROUND.[LIST OF KNOWN TESTS HERE]

FROM THE FIRST NUCLEAR TEST CODENAME TRINITY IN 1945 TO TODAY'S FEARS OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM AND NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL, WE CAN ONLY SUPPRESS THOSE WHO HAVE THE DESIRE TO USE THESE WEAPONS ALL TO WILLINGLY. ONCE THE DECISION TO USE THESE WEAPONS AGAIN IS MADE WELL, HUMANITY WILL AGAIN CROSS ANOTHER THRESHOLD EVEN MORE OF A GAME CHANGER THAN THE ATTACKS ON JAPAN IN 1945.

WE HAVE WITNESSED THE HORRIFIC NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS AT CHERNOBYL AND FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI SERVE ONLY AS A REMINDER OF THE INHERENT DANGERS OF DEALING WITH NUCLEAR MATERIAL. THE WIPP NUKE MATERIAL ISOLATION PLANT IN NEW MEXICO SUFFERED A HUGE ACCIDENT IN 2014 DUE TO HUMAN ERROR THAT HAS JEOPARDIZED CONTINUED OPERATION OF THE FACILITY AND PRESENTS HAZARDS TO THE WORKERS TODAY. THE OUT OF CONTROL RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION AT THE ROCKY FLATS + HERE AND HANFORD SITES ARE LEGEND - SEE THIS LIST OF ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS AT WIKIPEDIA.

IN THE EARLY 1980'S I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO EAR THE GREAT BUCKMINSTER FULLER SPEAK. HE WASOF THE OPINION, THAT, ALL NUCLEAR WASTE, ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS SHOULD BE ROCKETED INTO THE SUN. IT IS ONLY BY RIDDING THE PLANET OF THIS TERRIBLE MATERIAL THAT WE ARE TRULY SAFE FROM IT.

From now on you need never await temporal attestation to your thought. You think the truth. You do not have the right to eliminate yourself. You do not belong to you. You belong to Universe. Your significance will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume that you are fulfilling your role if you apply yourself to converting your experiences to the highest advantage of others.^[9]