Table 2

Affected populations from 550 Kt surface detonations in 4 downtowns
Effect Type
 City

Washington
 New York
 Chicago
 Atlanta
Combined Fallout and Thermal
 2,678,638
 6,456,056
 3,398,527
 1,243,165
Combined Fallout and Blast
 2,541,368
 6,001,862
 3,167,676
 1,178,751
All Thermal categories
 923,401
 3,309,930
 1,614,371
 459,639
All Fallout categories
 2,170,917
 5,042,904
 2,430,731
 1,064,928
All Blast categories
 708,710
 2,554,308
 1,251,965
 353,925





All Thermal categories
 923,401
 3,309,930
 1,614,371
 459,639
> 25 cal cm2 Zone
 211,206
 903,591
 316,847
 122,572
> 13–25 cal cm2 Zone
 135,752
 521,519
 305,725
 68,720
3rd Degree Burn Zone
 94,202
 315,388
 190,071
 42,141
2nd Degree Burn Zone*
 165,557
 509,926
 256,134
 71,496
1st Degree Burn Zone
 316,684
 1,059,506
 545,594
 154,710





All Fallout Categories where mortality > 0.5%
 2,170,917
 5,042,904
 2,430,731
 1,064,928
Mortality > 90%
 1,016,206
 3,229,502
 1,473,337
 614,767
     > 50–90%
 583,486
 493,519
 261,381
 123,160
     > 10–50%
 311,292
 678,783
 180,456
 119,567
     > 0.5–10%
 259,933
 641,100
 515,557
 207,568





All Blast categories over 1psi
 708,710
 2,554,308
 1,251,965
 353,925
> 20psi
 20,710
 158,889
 52,950
 19,476
10–20psi
 32,703
 155,019
 34,704
 25,437
3–10psi
 158,287
 596,150
 231,341
 77,985
2–3psi *
 138,363
 537,279
 316,306
 71,105
1–2psi
 358,647
 1,106,971
 616,664
 159,922

• Approximately 500,000 additional daytime workers will be affected for Washington and 600,000 for New York for the second degree burn zones or the 2psi zone. No data are available for Atlanta and Chicago.

Bell and Dallas International Journal of Health Geographics 2007 6:5   doi:10.1186/1476-072X-6-5