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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 ]]
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 .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 20 4-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 ]]
 .p109 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Military_Command_Center | National Military Command Center ]] not deep underground
 .p109 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Perry | William Perry ]] ... democracy gone ... military rule, imposssible to undo
 .p117 NK: 2003 Plutonium production, 2006 first test, 2009 second test, 2016 thermonuclear weapons, 2017 ICBM
 .p124 NK SLBM aimed at [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant | Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant ]]
 .p127 Devil's Scenario
 .p133 82 warheads launched at North Korea
  . '''WHY NOT WAIT? Call the Russians and let THEM clean North Korea off the map'''
 .p143 rancher uploads phone video of Diablo Canyon mushroom cloud
 .p144 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter | X ]] "overloaded and shuts down" [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Touhill | Gregory Touhill ]] ... '''NO, it just gets really slow and sporadic.'''
 .p147 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Lapp | Ralph E. Lapp ]] [[ https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/12/archives/thoughts-on-nuclear-plumbing.html | 1967 W. K. Ergen Report ]]
 .p153 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EKS_(satellite_system) | Tundra satellite ]] inaccurate
 .p154 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse | Electromagnetic Pulse ]] destroys helicopter electronic systems, crash??? '''NO, controls are hydraulic.'''
 .p160 missiles targeting North Korea overfly Russia, SecDef cannot connect
 .p164 33 min, nuclear explosion over Pentagon
 .p169 Russian radar interprets 50 US missiles as attack on Russia
 .p169 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Touhill | Gregory Touhill ]] says Northern Virginia has 60% of the world's data centers ... er, no
 
  . [[ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1228433/data-centers-worldwide-by-country/ | statistia ]] says 5426 in entire US, around 4740 in the rest of the world, 10166 total, 53% in the US
  . [[ https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/ | Data Center Map ]] says 4205 data centers in the US, 636 in all of Virginia, 15% of US.
  . [[ https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/virginia | Virginia Data Center Map ]]
 .p1 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Prophet | 1983 Proud Prophet War Game ]]
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Nuclear War

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

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