An Israeli attack on the Iranian capital of Tehran using five 500-kiloton weapons would kill seven million people -- 86% of the population -- according to a new study.
In those first minutes, they’ll be stunned. Eyes fixed in a
thousand-yard stare, nerve endings numbed. They’ll just stand there.
Soon, you’ll notice that they are holding their arms out at a 45-degree
angle. Your eyes will be drawn to their hands and you’ll think you mind
is playing tricks.
But it won’t be. Their fingers will start to
resemble stalactites, seeming to melt toward the ground.
And it won’t
be long until the screaming begins. Shrieking. Moaning. Tens of
thousands of victims at once. They’ll be standing amid a sea of
shattered concrete and glass, a wasteland punctuated by the shells of
buildings, orphaned walls, stairways leading nowhere.
This could be Tehran, or what’s left of it, just after an Israeli nuclear strike.
Iranian
cities -- owing to geography, climate, building construction, and
population densities -- are particularly vulnerable to nuclear attack,
according to a new study,
“Nuclear War Between Israel and Iran: Lethality Beyond the Pale,”
published in the journal Conflict & Health by researchers from the
University of Georgia and Harvard University. It is the first publicly
released scientific assessment of what a nuclear attack in the Middle
East might actually mean for people in the region.
Its
scenarios are staggering. An Israeli attack on the Iranian capital of
Tehran using five 500-kiloton weapons would, the study estimates, kill
seven million people -- 86% of the population -- and leave close to
800,000 wounded. A strike with five 250-kiloton weapons would kill an
estimated 5.6 million and injure 1.6 million, according to predictions
made using an advanced software package designed to calculate mass
casualties from a nuclear detonation.
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Yes and very shortly after that the world would begin a mass suicide. First the firing of every weapon in the mid-east. (use it or lose it). Followed shortly by Russia, China and then US the Britts and anyone else with CEM/BIO/Nuke warheads. 1000 years of peace indeed, as that is about how long it will take for the fallout to cool and the grass to grow once more.
ReplyDeleteTEOTWAWKI, big time.
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