Ivana Hughes

And then again, depending on if it's an airburst or a surface explosion, you kind of have these different concentric circles of heavy blast damage where just everything is absolutely destroyed.

The shockwave is such that it just...

just everything collapses, buildings collapse, everything collapses.

Then you might have a kind of lethal radiation dose, concentric circles.

Then you might have moderate damage where you still have buildings collapsing, injuries are widespread and so on.

And you kind of keep going, but you start out with quite literally evaporating everything.

In this fireball and you kind of keep going out of that.

And in New York City, for an airburst, you're looking at something like on the order of one and a half million people.

People dying and about 2 million people being very severely injured.

There's also a concentric circle where the temperature is so high that everybody gets sick.

third degree burns.

And this is something that happened, of course, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It's where it just, you know, people's skin quite literally melts.

There are kind of descriptions from survivors of the bombing of seeing people with their, you know, skin looking like it was clothing just sort of hanging over them.

This is

quite simply a site of total and absolute horror and devastation.

And it would destroy a U.S.

city.

And render it potentially uninhabitable for decades, hundreds of years, potentially even thousands of years.

Again, it all depends on how you do it, how large the weapon is, how it's detonated.