HELP 15 POINTS These weapons killed about 115,000 people, while many more suffered from illnesses and deaths resulting from the aftereffects of the bombing in the months that followed.

The United States tested it on a tiny, rocky island in the Pacific Ocean in 1952. The island was vaporized. The hydrogen bomb was 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb used against Japan.

People around the world worried that the leaders of the United States or the Soviet Union might really use nuclear weapons, wiping out whole societies or perhaps even destroying the planet.

It created huge clouds of "fallout," or unhealthy radioactive dust, which could travel thousands of miles. People who lived near nuclear testing areas often got cancer.

What CENTRAL idea do these details support?

A. The government tested many nuclear weapons before using them.

B. The government had a good reason to practice nuclear air-raid drills.

C. Nuclear warfare would be devastating for people and the planet.

D. Nuclear warfare could never happen