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If the Hiroshima atomic bombing in 1946 were to happen again—and this time in London (England’s capital), it is likely to kill 76,000 and injure another 245,000 people.
Knewz.com has learned that this theory – drummed up on the 79th anniversary of the catastrophic event that put an end to World War II – claimed that 15% of the fallout’s survivors would eventually succumb to cancer.
In the simulation, Nuke Map – built by nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein of the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey – shows six spheres of damage if the same projectile (“Little Boy”) were dropped.
The first will be the fireball radius where all the bomb's components are consumed and everything touched by it is vaporized. This ball of flame is said to encompass everything inside 650 feet from the bomb’s epicenter.
In the next circle, the heavy blast radius covers 1112.2 feet, where even “heavily built concrete buildings are severely damaged or demolished,” and the death rate remains close to 100%.
The radiation field is as deadly and encompasses a square area of 0.46 miles. Individuals merely need to be in the area to suffer the effects of lurking radiation. According to Wellerstein, 15% of people here are liable to die of cancer within a month.
The moderate blast damage radius, despite the name, is where wholesale death and injuries are prevalent, and residential fires will ensue. This sphere comprises an area of 3.3 square miles around the blast’s center.
Next is the thermal radiation radius. In this circle, every human and animal will sustain third-degree burns for a distance of 1.18 from the epicenter. So severe are these burns that the nerves are seared away making injuries painless and resulting in disablement and amputation.
The last and largest of the six spheres is the light blast damage radius which affects everything within 2.8 miles of the epicenter.
In this circumference, the nuclear bomb’s shock wave will still be harmful with the biggest risk being breaking glass.
Wellerstein’s model says: “This can cause many injuries in a surrounding population who comes to a window after seeing the flash of a nuclear explosion (which travels faster than the pressure wave).”
Aside from coinciding with the 79th anniversary of Hiroshima where 140,000 people were killed indiscriminately, this hypothesis also gives weight to pro-Kremlin blowhards’ continuous salivation over the possibility of a Russian nuclear strike on the United Kingdom.
One of the most recent people to float the idea was Yevgeny Popov. During a live television show, he said:
“Special attention to Britain, our traditional enemy,” while pointing out targets in the metropolitan centers of London, Manchester, and Birmingham along with numerous military bases in the island country.
“Britain is in the most vulnerable position. In principle, three missiles are enough, and this civilization will collapse, ” he said, per a previous Knewz.com report.