Modelling suggests that if dropped on major economic centers around the globe, a new nuclear warhead would cause many deaths.
Modelling of what a new nuclear warhead being developed by the United States military would do to cities around the world shows that, while far from the largest ever built, it would be capable of killing hundreds of thousands 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.
If discharged over Paris, the Eiffel Tower would be vaporized while the Élysée Palace, the Arc de Triomphe and the Louvre would likely be rubble. A blast radius would extend over the entire city and into the suburbs, with the level of damage to buildings and people falling the further away from the epicenter.Over 1 million people would die, while 2.1 million would sustain injuries.
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