Business Insider: Here's how many 'super nukes' American scientists thought it would take to destroy the world in 1945
Shortly after the end of World War II, the scientists who developed the atomic bombs dropped on Japan tried to envision the kind of nuclear event that could lead to the destruction of not just cities, but the entire world.
A declassified document shared by nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein gives the verdict that scientists at the Los Alamos laboratory and test site reached in 1945. They found that "it would require only in the neighborhood of 10 to 100 Supers of this type" to put the human race in peril.
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WNU Editor: As a reference point, the 1980 Mount St. Helens explosion was the equivalent of a 24 megaton explosion.
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