This terrific map by MoJo shows how littered the US is with nuclear stuff — active weapons ready to be tossed should the whole “Soviet Union collapsing” thing turn out to be a mistake, dormant weapons awaiting disposal and active nuclear reactors. Although most of the weapons are locked away inside the country’s interior, tucked into sleepy silos, there’s plenty out there — and maybe closer than you think.
What can you do about it? Nothing. Should you care? Probably — the US has a superabundance of warheads it doesn’t need and a nuclear power grid we have reason to be cautious about. And none of it’s going anywhere. [Mother Jones]
AndrewG
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 11:02 AMBecause it’s alright if the US has Weapons of Mass Destruction… just nobody else!!!
olly
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 4:16 PMSo what does destroy the entire planet many, many, many, many times over really mean?
Does it mean kills every living thing and put massive multi kilometre craters all over the surface of the Earth? or does it mean blow the whole Earth up, right to its core and send fragments out into the universe leaving nothing behind?
I’ve never really understood just how powerful these nukes really are…
Matt
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 4:27 PMKill every living thing on the planet.
Unless they somehow installed all the nukes close to the center of the earth, the second scenario is quite impossible.
Just This Guy ...
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 4:48 PMFor a country so paranoid about any other being in possession of these things, the U.S really should pay a lot more attention to what’s lurking in it’s own backyards and they manner in which it’s all being stored.