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Chilling map shows where 75% will die in WW3 nuclear attack as Chernobyl bombed

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Map shows areas of the US where 75% of the population would die in a hypothetical World War 3 nuclear strike.

In 1986 , scientists from Princeton University published a study exploring the potential impacts of a nuclear attack on the continental United States .

They hypothesised an enemy strike on US nuclear storage facilities, including direct hits on silos housing the Minuteman missiles, causing them to detonate on site.