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 .xi [[ https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/bolt-out-blue-how-us-military-could-be-completely-destroyed-185727 | Bolt from the blue attack ]]
 .xii-xvi 47 interviews, including [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garwin | Richard Garwin d2025 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Perry| William J. Perry ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Panetta | Leon Panetta ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_N._von_Hippel | Frank von Hippel ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Toon | Brian Toon ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Townes | Charles Townes d2015 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wright_Forrester | Jay Forrester d2016 ]]
 .pxi [[ https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/bolt-out-blue-how-us-military-could-be-completely-destroyed-185727 | Bolt from the blue attack ]]
 .pxii-xvi 47 interviews, including [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garwin | Richard Garwin d2025 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Perry| William J. Perry ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Panetta | Leon Panetta ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_N._von_Hippel | Frank von Hippel ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Toon | Brian Toon ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Townes | Charles Townes d2015 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wright_Forrester | Jay Forrester d2016 ]]

 .pxvii 1 megaton thermonuclear weapon, 100M Kelvins, ~5 times center of Sun
  . however, the largest yield weapon in the US arsenal is the 475KT [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W88 | W88 ]], 400 produced, yield similar to the [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor | 2013 Chelyabinsk meteorite ]]
  . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W54 | W54 ]] tactical nuclear warhead, 10T to 1KT, 51 lb, 11in diam, 16in long
 .pxxi [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_speed#Non-tornadic | highest recorded wind speed 253 mph ]]
 .p007 [[ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hiroshima_Damage_Map.png | Hiroshima blast damage map ]]
 .p008 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setsuko_Thurlow | Setsuko Thurlow ]] [[ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/world/asia/hiroshima-japan-setsuko-thurlow.html | nytimes 2020 ]]
  . Nobel Peace Prize, Virginia husband James Thurlow, interracial marriages prohibited in VA, moved to Toronto
  . still alive 2025 (?) [[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXg1P_wX79Q | 75 min video ]]
 .p013 third bomb ready to ship, material for 4th bomb by end of August
 .p015 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads | Operation Crossroads ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll | Bikini Atoll ]]
 .p016 weapon count: 1947:13 1948: 50 1949: 170
 .p016 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs | Klaus Fuchs ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project | 1949 Russian test of Fat Man copy ]]
 .p017 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garwin | Richard Garwin ]] Super [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike | Ivy Mike ]] November 1952
 .p020 [[ https://fas.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Stockpile.png | US nuclear stockpile graph ]]
  .peak stockpile 31,000 1967, peak deployment 12,000 1987, 2024 estimate 3708
 .p033 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-Based_Infrared_System | SIBRS ]] Space Based Infrared System
 .p043 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Space_Force_Station | Clear Space Force Station ]] central Alaska
 .p047 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Strategic_Command | STRATCOM ]]
 .p048 Global Operations Center
 .p053 1600 seconds from Soviet launch to US detonation
 .p056 photo of 2019 flood at [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offutt_Air_Force_Base | Offutt Air Force Base ]]
 .p059 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_on_warning | Launch On Warning ]]
 .p064 the president is entirely uninformed about waging nuclear war
 .p068 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwasong-17 | Hwasong-17 ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-250 | RD-250 ]] rocket engine probably stolen from Russia
 .p073 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-Based_Midcourse_Defense | Ground-Based Midcourse Defense ]] failed
 .p077 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-based_X-band_radar | SBX ]] sea based radar
 .p082 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Emergency_Operations_Center | PEOC ]] bunker (100ft?) under White House [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Wing | East Wing ]]
 .p089 400 1-warhead ICBMs, 66 bombers with multiple warheads, 14 nuclear subs with multiple-warhead SLBMs
 .p097 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Codes | "the biscuit" card with launch codes ]]
 .p099 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_B-2_Spirit | B-2 stealth bomber ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B61_nuclear_bomb#B61_Mod_12 | B61-12 ]] (400kT?) bunker buster gravity bomb
 .p101 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_government_continuity_of_operations | Continuity of Operations ]]
 .p103 [[ https://www.pedialyte.com/products/advanced-care-plus-powder-packs/orange | Pedialyte ]]
 .p105 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_Rock_Mountain_Complex | Raven Rock Mountain Complex ]] Site R, 70mi northwest of White House, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Summit,_Pennsylvania | Blue Ridge Summit PA ]]
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Nuclear War

A Scenario . Anne M. Jacobsen . 2024 . Bvtn. Lib. 355.0217 JAC

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