![]() Most experts agree that the average person is more likely to succumb to nuclear war than nuclear terrorism. What do the experts worry about?Ĭommon concerns span the spectrum from a nuclear terrorist attack against a single city, potentially killing millions of people, to all-out global nuclear war, potentially killing billions. ![]() Some of these are hundreds of times more powerful than those that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and they may be able to create a decade-long nuclear winter that could kill most people on Earth. Yet the superpowers plan to invest over a trillion dollars upgrading their nuclear arsenals, which many experts believe increases the risk of nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism, and accidental nuclear war. ![]() “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” Ronald Reagan, 1984 State of the Unionĭespite the end of the Cold War over two decades ago, humanity still has an estimated 13,410 nuclear weapons. ![]()
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