advlrsaiy in any meaningful sense of the term. Disclosures about sone of tbe sinulated ltar exerc].ses, for exarnple, indicate human and naterial casualties inflicced upon the belligerent nationrs own or allies' Populatlon by its own rreapons. In solrE cases, several of the vreaPons destroyed in conbat situations rtere tht targets of the allies' rather than lhe adversaryrs weaponry. 68/ Neither the reduction in the circular error probabitlties nor the standardization of alliesr weapon s arsenals can competely overcone the non-negligible risk of human faliibility in an actual war situation, and even a less than one per cent nargin of error can have a devastating effect, given the extremely dangerous potential of the new weapons of mass destruction. Even if a small fraction of the massive nuclear arsenali were to renain with the adversary after a Pre-emPtive first strike, the danEge they can cause vrould' for all practical purposes, obliterate any strategic advaitage iainea. Each of the warheads contained in a presentday strategic missile arnEd tith three warheads, for example, has the explosive porer of rnore than l0 simultaneously detonated Hiroshima-type bonbs. Slngle weapons ltith nore than l0 times the explosive Power of these warheads (equivalent to 100 Hlroshima bqnbs) have been routinely flown on modern strateglc bcf,nbers' ll5. In calculaeing the imnediate hunan and physical destruction llkely to result fron a nuclear $far, and its socio-econcrnic and political consequences for both the active beuigerents and the rest of the uorld, the united Nations conprehensive study on nuclear vreapons ( /35/392) has categorically stated that' however estinateal. their nature and extent are virtually incomprehensible ' In nos t situations of the actual use.of nuclear weapons by any of the nuclear Powers, the civilian casualties nould outnumber the military onesi nillions could die and a similar number be subjected to severe biologicalr physical and psychological damage
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