Nuclear security

Is US really in North Korea's 'nuclear sight'?

The rogue regime is now openly suggesting its "nuclear sight" is focused on both American-allied military bases in the region, and "also in the U.S. mainland." And while the White House is writing off the idea of a North Korean nuclear strike on U.S. soil as fantasy, there are growing questions about what kind of damage Pyongyang is capable of inflicting, and how soon they could follow-through on the threat to target our shores.

...South Korea's weather agency said the blast, in September 2016, was equivalent to 70-80 percent of the force of the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Estimates suggest nearly 66,000 people were killed by the blast in Hiroshima, though some experts believe the number may be even greater.

Seventy years after the Hiroshima blast, nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein created an interactive map to show what the effects of a Hiroshima-style bomb would be on cities like New York or D.C. According to Wellerstein's map, the estimated fatalities in D.C. would number more than 120,000. For Tokyo, a city within North Korea's reach, the estimate is the same. For New York, though, the number doubles to more than 263,000.