[RayChuang88]

And the scary part is that Pakistan's nuclear weapons aren't the 1 kT improvised nuclear device terrorist bomb. They are more in the range of 10 to 20 kT, bombs that can literally flatten several square miles of city.

What really worries me is that bin Laden could have paid for the Pakistanis to build something truly frightening: a thermonuclear bomb. Imagine a bomb with a yield in the 150-200 kT range--something like that detonated at Times Square in NYC will just about flatten every building on Manhattan, severely damage the western part of the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, and heavily damage cities on the New Jersey shoreline of the Hudson next to Manhattan. A death toll in the 1.5-2 million range is what will happen from such a device. (eek!)

[Carry_Okie]

Well let's think positively about that. At least the UN building would be gone from US territory. All we would have to do to verify an imminant detonation is to watch the movements of particularly scurrilous diplomats.