WE ARE ALL FAMILIAR WITH THE MUSHROOM CLOUD

                                  DO WE UNDERSTAND WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?

                                     DO WE REALIZE THIS COULD HAPPEN TO US?


    The United States and the former Soviet Union possess over 10,000 nuclear weapons  more
    than enough to destroy the entire world many times.  Since 1945 over 2000 nuclear bomb
    tests have been conducted - an average of 33 per year
    That means an average of 1 every 11 days.
    Depending on which account you go by there are 7 to 9 nations which now possess nuclear
    weapons. One account lists 23 other nations as possessing weapons of mass destruction that
    are not nuclear. In addition the United States deploys its nuclear weapons in six other nations:
    Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, and Turkey.  In addition to 7 (most conservative
    estimate) there are 25 - 30 other nations which have weapons of mass destruction stored in their
    nation or at their disposal.

    One fact most often overlooked in writings about nuclear weapons is that it is a lucrative, very
    profitable industry. While (mostly western) nations officially speak against nuclear weapons
    proliferation, they ignore the effort of industry and others to help disperse the technology to
    other nations.  That knowledge can easily be transferred to terrorists and terrorist groups.
                 That truth is well documented by William Langewiesche in his book
                THE ATOMIC BAZAAR: The Rise Of The Nuclear Poor (op. cit. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux; New
                      York:2007)    

                                           PICTURE OF THE MUSHROOM CLOUD IS THE ACTUAL PICTURE OF THE BLAST OVER
                                          HIROSHIMA AUGUST 6 1945. IT IS PART OF THE DISPLAY OF THE HIROSHIMA PEACE CULTURE
                                          FOUNDATION AND IS USED WITH THEIR PERMISSION.               

                               BUT WE DO HAVE SOME ALTERNATIVES   HIROSHIMA4