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By Robert BurnsBBC Sport – 5,077 wordsBy Robert BurnsCoronavirus has devastated the lives of many in the world and devastated the world’s economies.
Now, with the prospect of nuclear war looming over the globe, the BBC has put together a guide to help you plan how to survive the fallout.
Here are 10 essential things you need to know about the nuclear weapons that have devastated the globe.1.
The US has only 1,800 nuclear weapons to defend itself and its allies.2.
All the warheads in the US arsenal are made by North Korea.3.
The United States is not alone in using nuclear weapons.
The UK and France are using them too.4.
The only way to make the nuclear weapon you want is to build a device that can be activated with a radio frequency.5.
The nuclear bomb has been used to wipe out entire populations of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Tokyo.6.
The bomb is a type of explosive, but it can be used in a number of other ways, such as by a nerve agent, a weaponised nuclear fission bomb or as a biological weapon.7.
The British and the US use the term “proton bomb” to describe their weapons.8.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has said that the bomb could cause up to 10 million deaths if it were detonated in the wrong place.9.
Some of the world of science fiction and fantasy, such is the power of imagination, uses nuclear weapons as the focal point of their stories.10.
The world’s governments have all banned nuclear weapons and have been working to develop safer alternatives.
