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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (204639)	9/28/2006 8:17:04 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If we devastate 30% of the production of oil, what do you expect it will do to the price? It will go up. As for a nuclear attack on the US, it's thinkable, but the results are unlikely to be as you fear. A 10 kiloton nuclear weapon set off in a major city, like Washington DC, might kill as many as half a million people, out of a regional population of 6 million. Aside from radiactive fallout, the blast area would be about one mile out from the epicenter. nuclearterror.org Would it mean the end of civilization as we know it? Ask the Japanese whether their civilization was destroyed by the nuclear explosions at Hiroshima (15 kilotons) and Nagasaki (22 kilotons). Ask the Ukrainians whether their civilization was destroyed by Chernobyl. As horrible as it would be, killing millions of city dwellers would not destroy Western civilization. Our system is redundant, self-replicating, and self-healing. (In contrast, the nuclear weapons possessed by the Soviets were thousands of times bigger than the bombs we used in Japan, and there were thousands of them, and long range missiles to carry them.)