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Today we have a piece of flash fiction from the ever Amazing Anne Rhodes.
Her short story is titled ...

BUNKER  by Anne Rhodes

“Have gone out to change the film.  Instruments say air is clear” - the note was cryptic but clear.

Josh should not have gone out until there was someone to take his place reading the “fallout” figures – and that should have been me.

So where was Josh? The super-thick lead-lined corridors echoed emptily – the Investigations Room deserted, as was the telephone exchange room – its’ instruments lifeless.

His radio beeped and a faint voice croaked,

“Instruments wrong – fallout deadly – do NOT come out” and then just a crackle.

He was alone in the bunker and the world outside was poisonous.

Facts about the nuclear bomb :-

A large-scale nuclear war would put 150 million tons of smoke into Earth’s atmosphere, creating a nuclear winter chillier than the Ice Age.

On average, regular sized nuclear weapons that detonate over a city would burn away around 40 to 65 square miles in the blink of an eye.

The United States’ largest nuclear bomb has the combined detonation power of 200 million pounds of high explosives.

The most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated was the Tsar Bomba, a Russian bomb with a cumulative power of over 50 megatons of TNT.

The U.S. and Russia each have thousands of nuclear warheads on high alert, a term used to describe the readiness of said missiles for launching. In this case, it would be mere minutes.

Eight Countries, including the United States, Russia, United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea are declared nuclear states, with an additional three suspected countries that remain undeclared.

The United States conducted over a thousand nuclear tests between 1945 and 1992, with a primary health consequence of increased radiation exposure leading to cancer. It’s estimated some 6,000 people will die from thyroid cancer as a result.

The combined explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed an estimated 120,000 people, forcing the immediate surrender of Emperor Hirohito in World War 2.

Since 1951, the United States has gone on to produce 67,500 nuclear missiles.

The aftermath of nuclear explosions are just as deadly and far-reaching; radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear plant reached as far as Wales and Scotland.

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