The Future

     Despite some advances in nuclear weapon technology that allows the weapon to explode underground, the fact remains that innocent people will die during a nuclear assault. According to the National Research Council (NRC), an underground nuclear attack could kill a million people.  This figure of a million deaths is connected to an underground nuclear attack. One of the intended purposes of the subterranean nuclear attack would be reducing civilian casualties. The number of estimated deaths for a surface nuclear attack would be much higher. The NRC estimates 2 to 10 million killed if the nuclear attack was on the earth’s surface. The loss of human life from the initial explosion alone would be enormous.

    Those that survive the initial obliteration must persevere through the massive panic that would spread after such an attack. Most likely, rumors of a nuclear attack would precede the attack itself. This would result in an accumulation of necessaries by the general public. After the actual attack, water and food supplies will be already depleted. The rush to get to safer ground will be completely chaotic. Lawlessness will sweep among the terror–stricken masses. Those with life-threatening injuries would likely never find medical aid in the disarray. In addition, there would be unimaginable depredation to the atmosphere, animals and nature. The afflicted country would then take revenge. The pattern of events would repeat itself. The purpose of the next nuclear attack would be to create even more destruction than the first strike. Since it is human nature to impart revenge, it is our belief that the continued proliferation of nuclear weapons would lead to global disaster.