... that 129,558 people were killed, injured, or missing (Iinkai 65). The bombing made 176,987 people homeless (Iinkai 65). Before 1940, the population of Hiroshima was 343,698. Four square miles or about 60% of Hiroshima was destroyed in seconds (Iinkai 65). Between 1950 and 1990 the population grew to 1,085,705 and has rebuilt the city greatly (Iinkai 65). The ... amounts of wind. At the center of the explosion the wind velocity got up to 980 miles per hour (Energy). That is five times stronger than the wind generated by a strong hurricane. The pressure of the wind was 3.5kg per square ce...

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... . When detonated, it squeezed the plutonium into a very dense supercritical mass, that in chain reaction lasted long enough for a large and destructive explosion. This type of bomb was tested 60 miles northwest of Alamogordo on what is now the White Sands Missile Range on July 16, 1945. This bomb was used on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. When the "uranium based ... " atomic bomb, (nick-named Little Boy), was dropped (by the Enola Gay , flown by Colonel Paul Tibbets), on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., five square miles of the city were completely destroyed in seco...

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... chemical and biological weapons. (Pg. 40 US news & world report, July 22, 2002) Some effects of nuclear warfare is those people within approximately a six square mile area (for a One megaton blast) will indeed be close enough to "ground zero" to be killed by the gamma rays emitting from the blast itself. ... and permanently blind every living thing from cows to birds, pets and us humans whether their eyes are opened or closed. This could accur within ten miles of the blast. The nuclear blast is so strong that it just doesn't blow up then its all over, the multispectral heat blast (UV ray...

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... particulates into the environment. The same event could crack the brittle metal tubing around the waste. According to the American Petroleum Institute, heavy truck accidents occur about 6 times each million miles travelled. With thousands of truck shipments, at least 15 accidents are expected each year. Shipping containers are designed to withstand a crash into an immovable object at 50 kilometers per hour ... , 1986, the #4 nuclear reactor at the Russian Chernobyl Nuclear Station exploded during a routine test. The radioactive iodine released from the explosion rose into the air and spr...

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... does tend break things. The effects of this disaster only killed 31 people, more people have died in plane crashes and coal mines collapsing. There is also only about twenty square miles that will be uninhabitable for a long period of time, which if you look at the size of a nation the size of Russia, isn't a whole lot. Now I mentioned "breeder reactors" before ... ...

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