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June 18, 2009

How Firestorms Would Greatly Intensify the Effects of Nuclear War

in the news: If You Love This Planet (a weekly radio program with Dr. Helen Caldicott) on June 1, 2009

Lynn Eden, CISAC acting co-director, discusses the history and dysfunctional aspects of U.S. war planning and nuclear weapons targeting, arguing that a nuclear blast on a U.S. (or Russian) city would be far more destructive than planners have estimated because they did not take into account firestorms resulting from an bomb detonation. Read more »