Jeff Findley wrote:
Yes, it's the fallout that renders the area uninhabitable. But,
it's not the "single bomb that can destroy the world" that urban
legend seems to indicate. I've heard the urban legend version too,
that one has never been tested because even the test would "destroy
the world". It's simply not true.

Too many poeple extrapolating from Dr. Strangelove and
Cobalt-Thorium-G?-)

rick jones
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