The number of victims in Moscow will exceed 311 thousand people. The consequences of dropping a nuclear bomb on St. Petersburg will be more devastating.
Newsweek simulated a nuclear strike on Moscow and St. Petersburg to find out what the consequences are for the residents of these cities. In the Russian capital, the death toll from a nuclear strike by the Pentagon’s new bomb is estimated at more than 311,000 people.
It was noted that the B61-13 gravity bomb with a force of 360 kilotons could cause significant damage to Moscow with 12.6 million inhabitants. The death toll from the new Pentagon bomb is estimated at 311,480, with 868,860 injured.
Anyone within a radius of just over 3 km from the blast site would be exposed to such high levels of radiation that they would die within a month, and 15% of survivors would eventually die of cancer, Newsweek wrote.
According to the Nukemap service, which was used to make the calculations, buildings would collapse approximately 3 km from the bomb blast site and fires would break out. Everything within a radius of about 1 km from the explosion site will be destroyed by the fireball.
If the B61-13 bomb was dropped on St. Petersburg, its impact could have been even more devastating, killing an estimated 360,150 people and injuring 685,930.
Let’s recall that in May, about a third (29%) of Russian residents believed that the Kremlin was ready to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine “if necessary”; 60% hold the opposite idea.
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Source: korrespondent
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