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Now this is scary stuff... Government planners predicted Birmingham would be vapourised by two five megaton ‘airburst’ nuclear bombs in the event of war with Russia in the 1970s. According to documents released by the National Archives, the city would have been flattened by the devices, each one 333 times more powerful than the 15-kiloton US nuclear bomb that was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 140,000 people. The predictions were drawn up by officials at the height of the cold war as they tried to work out the consequences of a disastrous conflict erupting with the Communists. birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/soviet-nuclear-threat-birmingham-revealed-7231246
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 09:23:07 +0000

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