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Certainly, the threat of nuclear war is blood curdling. After all, it was just that - a threat - that prolonged The Cold War and has now left the two largest nuclear nations, the U.S. and Russia, with nuclear arsenals that could cause global nuclear winter 100s of times over.

What I find more threatening it the U.S.'s stance to continue to proliferate this arsenal, and do so under the guise of a program called the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program, now amusingly abbreviated SS & M.

"The (initial) human casualties from blast are almost totally caused indirectly by blast destruction of structures (ie. collapsing sturctures and violently flying debris). " - Mark A. Harwell, Nuclear Winter.