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Michael R. Greenberg, PhD, MA, Associate Editor, AJPH

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Nuclear weapons are the archetypal weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Made infamous during World War II and by movies such as The Sum of All Fears (Paramount Pictures, 2002), these weapons explode above or on the ground, causing damage arising from contact with displaced objects, followed by a fireball, concussion, and fallout. The 2 bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II killed well over 100000 people. Today’s nuclear weapons are much more destructive. Also, so-called "dirty" bombs, which use conventional weapons to explode nuclear materials, would make an area uninhabitable, at least temporarily.

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