BY BRIAN M. MORRIS
Let’s be honest: If we are struck by an asteroid of “Lucifer’s Hammer” proportions, it will simply be a situation of right time, right place if we are going to survive the initial event. The same thing goes for a large-scale thermonuclear war.
The Arms Control Association estimates that as of 2018, the United States had 1,350 strategically deployed nuclear warheads. Russia has 1,444. This doesn’t include another 4,000 and 4,350, respectively, that are in active and inactive stockpiles.