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About 90% of these are held by the USA and Russia.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sgr-000076#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The USA and Russia maintain a 'launch on warning' status with 300 to 400 missiles each ready to fire within minutes, leaving leaders as little as five to ten minutes to decide on a launch, which increases the risk of accidental nuclear war due to human or technological error.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sgr-000076#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Modern nuclear weapons possess immense destructive power; for example, a single Russian SS-18 missile can carry ten 800kT warheads, totaling 8MT, which is more than twice the explosive power of all bombs dropped during World War II.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sgr-000076#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"A single 100kT warhead detonated over a medium-sized city like Manchester is estimated to cause approximately 80,000 immediate deaths and 210,000 injuries, overwhelming 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Citing the short interval between the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the text argues that technical capabilities and the routine work of war planners shape the conditions for nuclear use more than high-level policy. 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