4 mm T2 W3 if THE SOVIET BLOC PATTERN 0F ATTACK The U S has about 3 600 000 square miles The lethal dose for humans from-Fallout Radiation is about 1000r 200r at H%l gives about of integrated dose theoretically can pro vide 3900r at H l hour or almost 20 000r integrated dose over a square mile three feet above a smooth plane or 1000r over 20 square miles if it is detonated on the surface Thus theoretically 180 MT could kill all the people about 200 000 000 in the U S Practically speaking we know the Russians could not dis tribute their bombs in this manner but it is to realize that this is one extreme In like manner the Russians not in- cluding China and other Russian satellites have about 8 000 000 square miles Thus theoretically 400 MT might kill all of the roughly 210 000 000 people in Russia The following statement gp reported from Berlin on January 16 1963 is thus understandable fp if we think of the Russian Satellites as having 100 000 000 and China 700 000 000 Soviet Premier Khrushchev told his Communist comrades today the United States has 40 000 atomic or nuclear warheads and Communist policy cannot be based on war If all the American bombs were drOpped he said 700 million to 800 million people would be killed and whole nations wiped out Communists he declared would not even be safe from Russia's own lOO megaton bomb because tests had showed that if it were dropped on west Germany or France the effects 'would hit you' In a wide ranging epeech to the Sixth Communist Party Congress of East Germany Mr Khrushchev thus answered the Chinese Communists who have accused him of being afraid of a 'paper tiger' United States when he backed down on Cuba Pouring scorn in Red China's war and peace theories Mr Khrushchev warned that neither communisn nor any one else can win in a nuclear war because it would bring un imaginable destruction The fight-for peace he went on is the chief task of communism mDear comrades now I tell you a secret he said Our scientists have developed a new 100 megaton bomb This bomb could not be used in western Europe becdhse it would hit France and Germany and you too This bomb could only be used overseas against a potential agreSSOr ' We can see that the 100 MT bomb comes pretty close to the 180 MT that would theoretically kill all the people in the U S In arriving at the 180 MT it was assumed that each explosion was 1 KT and that the Russians had sufficient forces to deliver 1 per square mile We know this is impossible but at the same time we would assume that bombs would be larger and rather than evenly dispersed collected around the populated cities massage                     National Security Archive    Suite 701  Gelman Library  The George Washington University    2130 H Street  NW  Washington  D C  20037    Phone  202 994‐7000  Fax  202 994‐7005  nsarchiv@gwu edu