WHAT DOES NUCLEAR WAR MEAN?

The ground on the crater was fused into a glassy jade-coloured mineral subsequently dubbed trinitite. The bomb had generated an explosive power akin to around 21,000 tons of trinitrotoluene (TNT). The blast was obvious from the distance of 50 miles (80 km), and it shattered windows 125 miles (two hundred km) away. People of Gallup, New Mexico, grea