constructed an index consisting of several measures to rank major U.S. To find the worst places to be if there’s a nuclear attack on America, 24/7 Wall St. Irwin Redlener, a professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, identified six economic centers most likely to be attacked. The targets, mapped by Business Insider, include command centers, ICBM bases, communication stations, and air force and submarine bases. Stephen Schwartz, author of “ Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940,” identified 15 such targets. But because an enemy of the United States is likely to first target strategic military installations, many of which are near large urban centers, remote areas would likely be safer. Should a nuclear attack target the United States, leading to the worst-case scenario: total nuclear war, not many places would be safe.
( click here to see the position of the Doomsday Clock over the years.) According to a survey published last year, more than three-quarters of Americans think a biological, chemical, or nuclear will likely occur somewhere on Earth in the next year. This January, as global tensions rose worldwide, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock - which symbolizes how close they believe humankind is to destroying itself - to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest the symbolic device has been to worldwide catastrophe.
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