The Impending Dangers of Nuclear War: America’s W88 Thermonuclear Warhead is 30 Times a Hiroshima Bomb | Global Research
The Impending Dangers of Nuclear War: America’s W88 Thermonuclear Warhead is 30 Times a Hiroshima Bomb | Global Research
The US, the UK,
Russia, China and France are rebuilding or upgrading their arsenals of
nuclear weapons. The other four nuclear states(Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea) too
are ‘improving’ their arsenals. As we discuss the statistics and
strategies of ‘nuclear arsenals’ and ‘nuclear deterrence’ it can be hard
to keep in mind the reality underlying the abstract discussions.
The nine nuclear states have over 10,000 nuclear weapons in their stockpiles1. This is enough to wipe out the entire population of the planet many times over together with all other life forms.
Is this sane? Has the
human race lost its senses? A single United States thermonuclear
warhead, designated W88, has an estimated ‘yield’ of 475 kilotons2. The ‘yield’ is the destructive power expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
