Were the US to launch a nuclear attack on Iran, the map below lists probable targets.

The data produced by the US Department of Defense software of the results of this type of attack on Iran indicate that some three million people would be killed in a short time, at least as many severely injured and that radioactive fallout could affect large areas of Iran.

Attacks on some Iranian facilities far from centres of population would kill two or three thousand people in the short-term; other attacks on facilities in cities immediately kill hundreds of thousands.

It is also certain that radiation from these explosions would reach the upper atmosphere and be carried across much of the earth. In the early 1960s public concern over detected concentrations of radioactivity in cows milk produced the public pressure that led to a US, UK, Russian ban on explosive testing in the atmosphere. In 1986 after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor radiation reached large parts of Europe.

Table 4 Hypothetical targets in Iran and prompt deaths using US DoD methodology from attacks of 3x10kt ground burst weapon per location

NB These targets are less than half of the Suspected WMD facilities discussed in the open literature and do not include any Iranian conventional military forces, national command centres or industrial sites.



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