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exposed sides of the skyscrapers. Other windows would be broken by flying debris. There would be a largenumber of fires on many floors. Most of these would be initiated by thermal energy. Others would besecondary fires, caused by blast. Blast damage would also disrupt fire fighting systems.Before the blast wave hit the buildings, many occupants would receive a dose of 1.8 Gray from gamma andneutron radiation from the third explosion. For those who were uninjured this would result in a mortality rateof around 2%. However this could jump to around 40% mortality in the case of those who had serious blast orburn injuries. Many who were exposed to gamma radiation would also receive 3 rd degree burns .Table 20. Effect of nuclear explosions on Moscow International Business CentreMissile/ Distance Direction Blast Heat ImmediateWarhead (km)(psi)(cal/cm 2 ) Radiation (Gy)1.3 3.6 N 1.9 7.8 03.4 2.6 SE 3.5 16 0.23.5 2.1 ENE 4.9 25 1.8Other high rise buildings between 2 and 3.5 kilometres of a nuclear explosionDistance(km)Blast(psi)Table 21. Tall buildings between 1 and 2 kilometres of a nuclear explosionHeat(cal/cm 2 )Absorbed dosefrom initialradiation (Gy)Examples2.1 4.9 25 1.8 Monarch Centre 134Bibliotechnaya St 47Hotel Cosmos 962.2 4.6 22 1 35-41 Ostrovityanova St 4227 Tyoplyy Stan St 512.3 4.3 20 0.7 Moscow State University 2402.4 4.1 18.5 0.4 7 Nizhegorodskaya St 792.5 3.8 17 0.3 15-25 Nizhegorodskaya St 81Sminovskaya St 47Shakovaya St 5122-34 Ostrovityanova St 772.6 3.5 16 0.2 House on Mosfilmovskaya 2012.7 3.2 15 0.1 16 Selsokhozyaystvehhaya St 122White Square business complex 912.8 3 14 - Monte Falcone 1352.9 2.8 13 - Sovetskoy Armii St 513 2.6 12 - Statistics Centre 1083.1 2.5 11 - Sokolniki Complex 147Minaevskiy Lane 503.3 2.2 10 - Sparrow Hills 188Height(m)Edelweiss 1763.5 2 8.3 - Nezhinskaya St 9525