A brilliantly made short illustrating the amount of active nuclear weapons held by each country, followed by a scenario to make you shudder. Plus some great music.
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Love for ratatat, nicely edited video. Although the number is a little outdated I think, don't have the exact numbers on hand. but I pretty sure USA has surpassed Russia in number of active nukes, and china has moved up on the number of nukes as well to about 400-500.
I was just looking up figures about 4 days ago as I was curious how many nuclear explosions have taken place since the invention. I knew there was quite a few but was never under the impression it was 2,044+ . There has been enough nuclear fallout to cover the earth with a thin layer of radioactive material, much like the band which geologists uncovered showing the explosion that killed the dinosaurs. Nowhere near as thick but it is there.
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GOOD Magazine, by the way, is excellent.
Pick up a copy if you see it.
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