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Surviving a Nuclear Attack on Washington, D.C.
National Journal ^ | June 24th 2005 | By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

Posted on 06/24/2005 10:54:52 AM PDT by ExSoldier

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I got this as an e-mail and felt it should be put on the boards immediately. It is a fairly long read, but fascinating.
1 posted on 06/24/2005 10:54:53 AM PDT by ExSoldier
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To: ExSoldier

It's horrifying to think about. But knowledge is power. This could save lives, of God forbid . . .


2 posted on 06/24/2005 10:57:15 AM PDT by cvq3842
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To: cvq3842

of = if


3 posted on 06/24/2005 10:57:31 AM PDT by cvq3842
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To: ExSoldier

tnx


4 posted on 06/24/2005 10:57:37 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (the real enemy seeks to devour what is good)
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To: ExSoldier

Eat your lunch in a bank vault every day.

Oh yeah, and bring along a spare pair of glasses.


5 posted on 06/24/2005 10:58:04 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: ExSoldier

That would suck. Talk about a HAZMAT and everything else imaginable in the fire service nightmare if I was a firefighter there.


6 posted on 06/24/2005 10:58:27 AM PDT by Firefigher NC
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To: ExSoldier

Won't have to worry about SCOTUS making any more stupid rulings.


7 posted on 06/24/2005 10:59:29 AM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: Yo-Yo

yo,
Great catch! Love that episode.


8 posted on 06/24/2005 10:59:46 AM PDT by Gefreiter ("Are you drinking 1% because you think you're fat?")
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To: ExSoldier

placemarker


9 posted on 06/24/2005 10:59:54 AM PDT by null and void (No man's life, liberty, or property are safe as long as court is in session)
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To: ExSoldier

I would grieve the loss of the Smithsonian, the Archives, and the Library of Congress...


10 posted on 06/24/2005 11:00:40 AM PDT by TXnMA (Iraq & Afghanistan: Bush's "Bug-Zappers"...)
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All those politicians dead..... Why would our enemies do us such a favor?


11 posted on 06/24/2005 11:01:40 AM PDT by Lexington Green (I am a good American, so I arrested my cancer-stricken mother for using medical pot.)
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After yesterday's Supreme Court ruling, ask me if I *care* whether Washington D.C. survives a nuclear attack?

It might be best just to scrap this whole "America" thing and start over.


12 posted on 06/24/2005 11:02:07 AM PDT by Tall_Texan (Visit Club Gitmo - The World's Only Air-Conditioned Gulag.)
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And here is what happens next, if I had anything to do with it:

Tasking orders are sent to an Ohio class SSBN somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.

Within 15 minutes 24 Trident SLBM's are headed to the Middle East.

Every Muslim city of over 100,000 people is incinerated with a MIRV warhead.

Every day for the next 5 days a similar atomic strike is launched on the survivors and the battle-assesed remnants of the Muslim world.

P.S. If the Muslims KNEW this would happen and BELIEVED we would do it, they would deliver Ali Kahn of Pakistan and Bin Laden's corpse and all of their followers to us post haste.


13 posted on 06/24/2005 11:04:28 AM PDT by Jonathan
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To: ExSoldier

Almost feels like someone's preparing us for an inevitability they know can't be stopped.


14 posted on 06/24/2005 11:08:20 AM PDT by Dubyous
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To: TXnMA

I know what you are saying. I have a copy of the Declaration of Independence, and that is definitely one of the finest pieces of work there is. Amazing.


15 posted on 06/24/2005 11:08:40 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear tipped ICBMs: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol.)
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To: null and void

Three to five days of non-perishable food is always stocked in the GRRRRR Shelter...the only thing I don't have is plenty of water stored...but we do have bathtubs to fill.

Ammo, never can have enough of it...

G


16 posted on 06/24/2005 11:09:26 AM PDT by GRRRRR (I've Had it with the Islamofascists...time to put em away for good!)
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And in contrast to the swift federal response to stabilize the financial markets after 9/11, the Treasury and other key agencies may be too badly damaged and decimated to intervene quickly.

No Federal intervention could save the markets after a nuclear terrorist attack. Current market levels reflect wild optimism on stilts - any sort of successful nuclear event will trigger a horrific worldwide depression.

17 posted on 06/24/2005 11:10:26 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Violence never settles anything." Genghis Khan, 1162-1227)
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To: TXnMA

A massive counterstrike should be launched on all the jihad states, until they are no more. Then we can grieve our dead. Better yet, if reason does not prevail upon the jihad states to rein in their rabid minions, rise early and strike them first.


18 posted on 06/24/2005 11:11:13 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: Jonathan

True. I love the maxim used by the marines .....no greater friend, no worse enemy. It is great being nice and all that stuff, but when it is time to gird oneself for battle then one should be prepared to obliterate the foe (and not worry about panties on heads).


19 posted on 06/24/2005 11:11:53 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear tipped ICBMs: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol.)
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To: ExSoldier

Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this. Information that could save a life.


20 posted on 06/24/2005 11:12:17 AM PDT by justanotherfreeper
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