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Parent Article: US Still Pursuing Nuclear Options 60 Years After First Bomb |
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16 Jul 2005
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One nuclear weapon could ruin your whole day, week, life... This chart shows the deadly radioactive plume of the CASTLE BRAVO test (15 megaton) on 1 March 1954, which exposed U.S. service personnel, native islanders, and the unlucky Japanese fishing vessel, the "Lucky Dragon" alike to fallout on an unprecedented and unpredicted scale, if it were superimposed on a similar area in the United States. If such a weapon targeted Washington, DC, it's plume would follow the East Coast's prevailing wind pattern in a manner that very much resembles the CASTLE BRAVO plume. _One_ such weapon and you can kiss the East Coast goodbye from DC to NYC.
The problem is that the Bush Adminstration is pursuing polices on arms control that make the possibility of nuclear proliferation more, rather than less, likely. International cooperation, rather than international bullying a la John Bolton, is needed to create the kind of international consensus necessary to stigmatize any nation not living up to its responsibilities to achieve nuclear disarmament. Unfortunately, the U.S. is one of these failing nations, right along with North Korea, in the belligerance of its justifications for expanding its arsenal of nucelar weapons. |
