From: Archibald Scatflinger (TransdimensionalElf@hawaii.rr.com)
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 19:02:05 MDT
[joe]
> Saddam Hussein has the history and propensity to use WMD's against
> both iraq's neighbors and its own people; such a person cannot be
> allowed to obtain nukes. Other nuclear nations (including Israel) have
> not, since the US used nukes twice in Japan 57 years ago, shown such
> a propensity (nor has the US, for that matter).
> >
[archibald]
correct me if I am wrong but nuclear radiation is still cancer causing and
highly deadly whether it is meant to kill anyone or not, right?
http://nuketesting.enviroweb.org/hew/Usa/Tests/
29. Total number of U.S. nuclear weapons tests, 1945-1992: 1,030 (1,125
nuclear devices detonated; 24 additional joint tests with Great Britain)
U.S. Department of Energy
The Atmospheric Test Series
Trinity - The First Nuclear Test
Operation Year Location Number
Trinity 1945 Alamagordo New Mexico 1
The Post War Test Series
Operation Year Location Number
Crossroads 1946 Bikini Atoll 2
Sandstone 1948 Enewetak Atoll 3
Ranger 1951 Nevada Test Site 5
Greenhouse 1951 Enewetak Atoll 4
Buster-Jangle 1951 Nevada Test Site 7
Tumbler-Snapper 1951 Nevada Test Site 7
Ivy 1952 Enewetak Atoll 2
Upshot-Knothole 1953 Nevada Test Site 11
Castle 1954 Bikini Atoll
Enewetak Atoll 6
Teapot 1955 Nevada Test Site 14
Wigwam 1955 Pacific Ocean 1
Project 56 1955 Nevada Test Site 4
Redwing 1956 Bikini Atoll
Enewetak Atoll 17
Plumbbob 1957 Nevada Test Site 30
Project 58 1957 Nevada Test Site 2
Project 58 A 1958 Nevada Test Site 2
Hardtack I 1958 Bikini Atoll
Enewetak Atoll
Johnston Island 35
Argus 1958 South Atlantic 3
Hardtack II 1958 Nevada Test Site 37
Nougat 1961-1962 Nevada Test Site 32
Dominic
(with Fishbowl) 1962 Christmas Island
Johnston Island
Central Pacific 36
Storax
(with Sunbeam and Roller Coaster) 1962-1963 Nevada Test Site
Nellis Air Force Range 56
Underground Tests at the Nevada Test Site
1963 to the present
Overview of underground testing.
Official List of Underground Nuclear Explosions (UNEs) in Nevada from Sandia
National Laboratories (July, 1994).
U.S. Test Locations
The first test of a nuclear weapon was in the atmosphere on July 16, 1945,
in a remote part of New Mexico on what was then the Alamogordo Bombing
Range, and is now the White Sands Missile Range. The site is 55 miles
northwest of Alamogordo, New Mexico. At various times between June 1946 and
November 1962, atmospheric and underground tests were conducted by the
United States in the Marshall Islands (known as the Pacific Proving Grounds
or PPG), Christmas Island, Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, and over the
South Atlantic Ocean. Between January 1951 and July 1962, atmospheric and
underground nuclear tests were conducted in Nevada at the Nevada Test Site
(NTS, originally called the Nevada Proving Grounds or NPG).
Since July 1962, all nuclear tests conducted in the United States have been
underground, and most of them have been at the NTS. Some tests were
conducted on the Nellis Air Force Range (NAFR); in central and northwestern
Nevada; in Colorado, New Mexico, and Mississippi; and on Amchitka, one of
the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska.
50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons
- Except where noted all figures are in constant 1996 dollars -
http://www.brook.edu/FP/PROJECTS/NUCWCOST/50.HTM
2. Total number of nuclear missiles built, 1951-present: 67,500
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project
5. Peak number of nuclear warheads and bombs in the stockpile/year:
32,193/1966
Natural Resources Defense Council, Nuclear Weapons Databook Project
6. Total number and types of nuclear warheads and bombs built, 1945-1990:
more than 70,000/65 types
U.S. Department of Energy; Natural Resources Defense Council, Nuclear
Weapons Databook Project
7. Number currently in the stockpile (2002): 10,600 (7,982 deployed, 2,700
hedge/contingency stockpile)
17. States with the largest number of nuclear weapons (in 1999): New Mexico
(2,450), Georgia (2,000), Washington (1,685), Nevada (1,350), and North
Dakota (1,140)
William M. Arkin, Robert S. Norris, and Joshua Handler, Taking Stock:
Worldwide Nuclear Deployments 1998 (Washington, D.C.: Natural Resources
Defense Council, March 1998)
18. Total known land area occupied by U.S. nuclear weapons bases and
facilities: 15,654 square miles
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project
19. Total land area of the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and New
Jersey: 15,357 square miles
Rand McNally Road Atlas and Travel Guide, 1992
22. Money and non-monetary compensation paid by the the United States to
Marshallese Islanders since 1956 to redress damages from nuclear testing: at
least $759,000,000
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project
23. Money paid to U.S. citizens under the Radiation Exposure and
Compensation Act of 1990, as of January 13, 1998: approximately $225,000,000
(6,336 claims approved; 3,156 denied)
U.S. Department of Justice, Torts Branch, Civil Division
40. Number of high level radioactive waste tanks in Washington, Idaho and
South Carolina: 239
U.S. Department of Energy
41. Volume in cubic meters of radioactive waste resulting from weapons
activities: 104,000,000
U.S. Department of Energy; Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
42. Number of designated targets for U.S. weapons in the Single Integrated
Operational Plan (SIOP) in 1976, 1986, and 1995: 25,000 (1976), 16,000
(1986) and 2,500 (1995)
44. Number of U.S. nuclear bombs lost in accidents and never recovered: 11
U.S. Department of Defense; Center for Defense Information; Greenpeace;
"Lost Bombs," Atwood-Keeney Productions, Inc., 1997
50. Estimated 1998 spending on all U.S. nuclear weapons and weapons-related
programs: $35,100,000,000
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project
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