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Richard, Rhodes. Interview by SPIEGEL ONLINE. "Nuclear Weapons Have Eliminated Large-Scale Warfare." SPIEGEL Interview. Web. 13 May 2013. http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel-interview-with-...

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Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons - 1 views

  • If you use a nuclear weapon to destroy a building in a city, you have to blow up three-quarters of the city just to destroy the building
  • Why would you want to do that? Nuclear weapons have crippling limitations.
  • Nuclear weapons can’t be disinvented. This is the killer. This is the backbreaker. This argument has won debates for 50 years. Sometimes proponents say, "Well, you can’t stuff the nuclear genie back in the bottle."
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    Ward Willson Are nuclear bombs practical? Ward Willson voiced in his interview, "If you use a nuclear weapon to destroy a building in a city, you have to blow up three-quarters of the city just to destroy the building. Why would you want to do that? Nuclear weapons have crippling limitations."
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List of states with nuclear weapons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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    This is more statistics on the Nuclear powers.
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    Wikipedia Nuclear war's effect on the world. According to Wikipedia, "Since the NPT entered into force in 1970, three states that were not parties to the Treaty have conducted nuclear tests, namely India, Pakistan, and North Korea."
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Peace questionnaire - 1 views

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  • There are probably about 70,000 nuclear bombs in the world. The exact number is unknown, due to military secrecy.
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    This is a Q and A for nuclear weapons.
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    Brian Martin Nuclear war's effect on the world. Globally, the number of nuclear bombs are about 70,000, but because of the secrets the army is keeping from us the real amount is estimated.
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SPIEGEL Interview with Atomic Bomb Historian Richard Rhodes: "Nuclear Weapons Have Elim... - 2 views

  • By the time the atomic bomb was dropped, we had destroyed virtually every Japanese city with a population of over 50,000
  • If you look at the number of man-made deaths in the 20th century, you will see that around 1917 it was around 6 million per year and then in the 1930s it was around 4 million per year. During World War II, it spiked up to the horrendous figure of some 15 million per year. But then, immediately after World War II, it dropped off dramatically to around 1 million per year and stayed at that low level for the rest of the 20th century.
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    Richard Rhodes The destruction of Hiroshima. Richard Rhodes states, " By the time the atomic bomb was dropped, we had destroyed virtually every Japanese city with a population of over 50,000."
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    Richard Rhodes Are nuclear bombs practical? During 1917 the number of artificial or man-made massacres was about 6 million every year and a little more than 13 years later it dropped to around 4 million deaths per year. Horrifically, the numbers skyrocketed to 15 million during World War 2, but at the turning point of the 20th century the number of dead went down and stayed at about 1 million.
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List of states with nuclear weapons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 2 views

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    This is a list and chart of the nuclear superpowers in the world.
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