Nuclear+Proliferation


 * Essential Questions: **


 * **Who determines who gets to have WMD’s and who doesn't get to have them?**
 * **Nuclear deterrents: Do the ends justify the means?**
 * **Is it possible to un-invent any object deemed too dangerous to exist?**
 * **Is the UN too weak? Too powerful?**
 * **What options are available to non-aligned countries to defend themselves from superpowers? **





Nuclear Proliferation Template

01/28/2014 Tuesday

Opener:

If a nuclear proliferation drop a bomb on New York city Manhattan, it will be countless impact on the whole city; If the bomb W-87 ( Currently in US arsenal, Minuteman III) (300kt); the radiation radius would be 500 rem, 460 meter. The actual fireball radius would be 0.6 km, but the air blast radius would be 4.71 km, the Thermal radiation radius would be 7.71 km. It expected the impact on almost the whole New York city, dying will takes hours and weeks. But the most impact would be the aftermath of dropping the bomb. It also will impactin New Jersey and other cities that near New York.

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