Webquest

Trinity Atomic Web Site
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/nukeffct/index.html

Includes video of nuke tests on house, planes and trees
Also, diagrams of effects, range and power of forces as time elapses

Atomic Archive
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Almanac/Testsite.shtml

From 1945 until 2008, there have been over 2,000 nuclear tests conducted worldwide. Half were in Nevada.
Map of test sites.
Pretty much everything Schell mentioned is backed up by articles collected here.
The EMP of a large nuke set off high above Nebraska could probably disable the United States entire communications and electric power systems, making retaliation impossible.
Includes example scenarios of attacks on New York, San Francisco and Detroit.
Today, the five acknowledged nuclear powers possess about 31,000 nuclear warheads, but in 1985 there were 68,585.

Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/na-bomb/museum/museume01.html

Exhibit of Trees That Lived Through the Bombing
Deaths: about 74000 Injuries: about 75000
Before and after aerial pictures show city instantly become uninhabitable.
Also dropped sensors to measure effects of bomb.


Pure science seeks the discovery of knowledge for the sake of knowledge itself. It is applied science that takes the discoveries of pure science and exploits them for specific purposes. In this way, mankind has developed instruments of good, like vaccines and improved standards of living, as well as instruments of evil, like nuclear bombs.

Even after the development of the bomb, research continued. Over 2,000 nuclear tests have been conducted worldwide. These include surface, high atmosphere, air, shallow underground and deep sea detonations, and two bombings of inhabited cities. Scientists have studied the data from the test and can diagram the range and force of the blast waves, thermal waves, electromagnetic pulses, wind storms and radioactive fallout second by second. Though only two cities have been demolished so far, the information is available to calculate the destruction caused to any city, and such scenarios have been dramatized for many likely target cities.

While Schell’s description of nuclear holocaust is merely a simulation, it is based on reams and reams of data. Everything he wrote (over and over again) is supported by research. There is hard evidence for his predictions. I only found one bit of information that is remotely reassuring: there are roughly half as many nuclear warheads in the world today as there was in 1985. Of course, there are still enough to kill all of us many times over.