Article, “More ‘Die’ than Survive in CD Test”

A Democrat & Chronicle newspaper article covering the nuclear attack air raid drills that took place in Rochester on July 12, 1957. The report concludes that the hypothetical detonation of a megaton bomb over downtown “was the largest drop ever assumed in a CD test, and the results were melancholy.” In this practice scenario, “[t]he heart of the city was desolated and there were only 227,510 uninjured survivors in the entire county.”