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Declassified and released: More secret files on US govt's emergency doomsday powers

LazLong

Significant typo

"Another document [PDF] from 1959 describing the aftermath of a Soviet nuclear attack estimated 48 million people would die, leaving 12 million survivors making up the US population."

That should probably be 120 million. The population of the US in 1959 was 177 million.

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