Nuclear Nightmares: Where Do We Go From Here?

Today, there are nearly 272 million people living in America, therefore making it the third most populated country in the World. As technology grows and strives the world become increasingly strong, and decreasingly vulnerable. Since the invention of the atomic bomb in 1939, the world has come to a conclusion in the eyes of Ben Franklin as, "The way to be safe is never to be secure." We have created our future and our doom. The United …

…virtually uninhabitable for a long period of time. Survivors may have to be relocated; hospitals and shelters would quickly become filled with displaced persons, many of them injured or suffering from radiation exposure. The trauma of such an attack would leave lasting psychological and emotional scars on the survivors. The cleanup task required for such a catastrophe would be even more enormous than what we saw on the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.