electromagnetic pulse. Key industrial insta-1lations in the city I'ould be rendered.largely inoperative in a nucl-ear attack, 159" If the veapon had exploded as a ground burst, nore than l-00 squarekilonetres voul-d be contgminated by radioactive far]out strong enough to glve peoplefatal doses within a \nreek, unless speeial precautions r,re?e taken. This heavily contaminated area woufd extend dorn'nwind from the explosion to far outsid.e the cityproper ' covering less densely populated districts but also vith less radiationshield.ing. The over-all short-term losses ti.ue to fallout raaliation could be in therange of 5,000 to 20,000 people for a typical European coultry. .As in the previous exsmple, a nurnber of late radiation deaths r^rould have to be added.A/35 /392 jins-L1sh Annex faae rrz 17O. For a country in another part af the uorfd - in particular a developing tropieal country - the consequences raight be even worse. In cities like Bombay, ca.iro o- Hons Konp a 1OO kt. low air burst night inrnediately kill we]f over a million people, as comFared to about 2OO'OO0 in the exanple above. The prinary reason fol' this r,iouLd be the high population density in these cities. Possibly, the average robustness of buildings would also be lowel' than in European cities' leading to blast devastation in a larger zone. 171 . As was indicated in ehapter II , many strategic warhead.s in the two super-Porters t^r.rrr- . wiald nf one nccalr llhacF \,rranons are po$erful enough to wreak ahost compl-ete destruction on any city, save fo" a few of the worldrs lalgest ulban conglomerates. u2. For these very large weapons, the thernal effects are even more pred.ominant in the total picture (althcugh blast is stil-]. the major cause of material destruction). The fireball from a 1 Mt" explosion in air continues to grow for more than 10
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the potential consequences of a nuclear attack on a city, including the destruction of industrial installations, contamination of the environment, and loss of human life. The focus is on the immediate and long-term effects of such an attack, rather than the economic or social development of the city or country. The text also highlights the differences in the impact of a nuclear attack on cities with different population densities and building robustness.

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