The Pentagon is the primary target in a nuclear attack on the U.S.
Washington, D.C. fears a "bolt out of the blue" attack most.
A one-megaton thermonuclear bomb could kill two million people and trigger a "catastrophe of problems."
This could disrupt the continuity of government, a critical concern for the U.S.
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Annie Jacobsen is a journalist, investigative reporter and an author.
The threat of nuclear war has loomed for over half a century now. But the question remains - just how close to nuclear armageddon are we and what would happen if the world went into a nuclear war.
Expect to learn how many nukes there are in the world right now, the most likely steps to an accidental nuclear war, what happens when a country fires the first nuke, which cities are the most likely targets of a nuclear strike, what the most powerful bomb in history was, how many people would die in a nuclear war between the US and Russia, how likely a nuclear war is in our future and much more...