Tensions with Russia are rising and the subject of a nuclear attack is back on the table. Should the USA be targeted, El Paso, Texas and Arizona will be hit hard.
Newsweek used maps produced by a professor and historian of nuclear technology named Alex Wellerstein to determine the impact of a Russian nuclear strike using their most powerful missile.
One in the El Paso range, which extends well into Mexico and as far north as Alamogordo, would kill 849,010 and injure 952,950…