Karl Grossman: "Avoiding Nuclear Destruction: By the Skin of Our Teeth"

Karl Grossman, compliments of www.space4peace.org.Beyond Nuclear board member Karl Grossman has posted an article at the Huffington Post, "Avoiding Nuclear Destruction: By the Skin of Our Teeth." Karl, as chief investigative reporter for WVVH-TV in New York, toured long-closed Nike and BOMARC nuclear-tipped missile bases on Long Island. From the 1950s to the 1970s, the missile batteries were designed to obliterate Soviet nuclear bomber squadrons approaching New York City. Other U.S. cities were similarly "defended" by such missile bases. The problem was, the detonation of 10 kiloton BOMARC missiles, or up to 30 kiloton Nike missiles, would have rained down massive amounts of radioactive fallout on the cities below that they were supposedly defending! By way of comparison, the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima was 13 kilotons. Karl's thirty minute television report is posted at YouTube.