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Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaires

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lawhawk2/11/2013 1:35:05 pm PST

Consider that the typical nuke in our inventory (2,200 warheads or so), are about 350kt (the W-87 warhead on the MX missile is 350, SLCM and other warheads are smaller, the Trident D-5 is 475kt ). All are considerably larger than the weapons used at either Hiroshima or Nagasaki and can be delivered far more precisely.

So, without further ado, here’s what it would do to your friendly neighborhood if someone dropped the bomb.

It will put some serious harsh in your mellow.

Reducing the number of weapons improves safety and storage, particularly because storage and disposal of the waste products (much of which is highly radioactive and deadly in nature) is already a huge headache and concern (and a cost). Cleaning up Oak Ridge and Hanford are decades-long projects to name two, and the challenges of storing radioactive debris for hundreds and thousands of years is something we still can’t address (and that’s for the lower radiation of nuclear power plants).