Ivana Hughes

And that in and of itself is huge.

And just to give you one kind of point of comparison, the Oklahoma City bombing, which I'm sure you remember, it was actually the first year that I was living in the United States.

It was in April of 1995.

And it was a devastating event.

It was the equivalent of two and a half tons of TNT.

So Timothy McVeigh had filled the Ryder truck with chemical explosives, lit it up outside of a federal building, killed people.

168 people, including 19 children in the daycare center.

And there was damage in a radius of up to, I think, 16 blocks, something of that order.

So absolutely an incredible and devastating event.

At the same time, that explosion was 6,000 times more

less energetic than the bombing of Hiroshima.

So 15,000 tons of TNT versus two and a half tons of TNT.

So that just begins to give you a scale for just how powerful a single nuclear weapon can be.

And then on top of it is that we now have weapons that are far more powerful than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.

In fact, in 1945, the U.S.

had three nuclear weapons.

One was used as a quote-unquote test, the Trinity test in the desert of New Mexico.

And then two were used on attacks on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Today, we actually have 12, on the order of 12,500 nuclear warheads, many of which are far more powerful.

So we know that both U.S.