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What a Nuclear Attack in New York Would Look Like
New York Magazine ^
| 06-12-2018
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Posted on 06/13/2018 2:14:58 PM PDT by NRx
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To: NRx
Maxine Waters is very worried that a nuke attack on the United States might cause Donald Trump to start a war.
If a nuclear attack against NYC happened, I wonder if the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists would advance the doomsday clock.
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posted on
06/13/2018 2:40:36 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: bert
To make America America, New York and San Francisco or LA must go And Chicago, St. Louis, Newark...
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posted on
06/13/2018 2:42:44 PM PDT
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: Billthedrill
Nice timing on the article, fellas. Maybe they just dusted off an old article from the Reagan years.
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posted on
06/13/2018 2:45:00 PM PDT
by
matt1234
(Jan. 20, 2017: the national nightmare ended.)
To: JimRed
Newark already Lois like its been hit.
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posted on
06/13/2018 2:45:10 PM PDT
by
Mouton
(The MSM is a clear and present danger to the republic.)
To: NRx
Wow, we are back to the 80’s! Same song and dance from the usual idiots. The parallels between how Reagan and Trump are vilified is so pathetic.
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posted on
06/13/2018 2:45:25 PM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: Rummyfan
“What would it look like? At least ten million dead I would say. And a clean-up that would take decades.”
Yes to the clean-up. That part of NYC might even be abandoned permanently.
A resounding NO to the 10 million dead. First off, the entire population of NYC (including the outer boroughs) is about 8 million. A 10 KT bomb exploded at ground level in Greenwich Village in Manhattan is way, way too small to do much beyond about 2.5 km - and would produce about 103,000 deaths and about 213,000 injuries. NO effects beyond the island of Manhattan, and you wouldn’t even have windows in the Empire State Building broken.
Check out this site: http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ for the details of any sized-bomb in any locality. It ain’t pretty, but it isn’t some all-consuming disaster, either.
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posted on
06/13/2018 2:46:00 PM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be f Vanceree." A. E. van Vogt)
To: bert
To make America America, New York and San Francisco or LA must goThe World Trade Center and the Pentagon, though the leftists would prefer Trump Tower.
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posted on
06/13/2018 2:47:42 PM PDT
by
Lonely Bull
("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
To: shanover
it’s MUCH worse for Trump,much worse,and it started the day he was inaugurated.
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posted on
06/13/2018 2:47:49 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: Lonely Bull
The UN building———poof !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
06/13/2018 2:49:08 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: NRx
A New Dawn
http://www.johnpitre.com/gallery
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posted on
06/13/2018 2:54:00 PM PDT
by
Vlad The Inhaler
( Gadsden Purchase 1853: U.S.A. buys 29,670 square miles from Mexico for $337 An Acre)
To: NRx
What the reaction to a nuclear attack on DC would look like
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posted on
06/13/2018 2:55:30 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES-GOD WITH US)
To: BenLurkin
Is 46 kilograms about 100 pounds? Seems like a lot. That is a lot, unless these nuclear terrorists are shockingly incompetent. Are they hiring real nuclear physicists and engineers to design their weapon or just Gender Studies majors?
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posted on
06/13/2018 2:58:24 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: NRx
At the risk of sounding insensitive, xx xxxx, x xxxx xxx’x xxxx (self censored).
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posted on
06/13/2018 3:04:08 PM PDT
by
Gator113
( ~~Trump 2020~~)
To: EvilCapitalist
I work in the Poconos, and after the Iran deal went through, I half expect to see a mushroom cloud over NYC one day. You stopped expecting it because obama chilled them out, or why?
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posted on
06/13/2018 3:06:46 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Have the courage to shine the light of reason in a dark world)
To: Rurudyne
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posted on
06/13/2018 3:08:06 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Have the courage to shine the light of reason in a dark world)
To: NRx
Utter nonsense that Trump has brought back the cold war.
If the Left can think back two years, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and others were advocating open hostility against Russia.
That wasn’t toying with nuclear war? It sure as hell was.
That was under Barack Hussein Obama.
Leave Trump along you mentally challenged idiot sticks.
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posted on
06/13/2018 3:12:19 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
To: null and void
I still expect to see it someday.
To: NRx
“The second reality we have failed to understand is what a nuclear detonation and its aftermath would actually look like. In our imaginations, fueled by apocalyptic fictions like The Road and The Day After, the scale and speed of nuclear annihilation seem too vast and horrific to contemplate. If nuclear war is considered unthinkable, that is in no small part because of our refusal to think about it with any clarity or specificity.”
One of my pet peeves is the unwillingness - either because of lack of courage or due to a deliberate attempt to avoid rational consideration of the problem - to consider the actual, scientific facts concerning nuclear weapons and their effects. Such lack of thought is, to say the least, rather unbecoming of members of the species that is at the top of the food chain on this planet - and it got there BECAUSE of its vast intellectual superiority over all other species (well, as a group - there are CERTAINLY exceptions, and most of them vote Democrat). This lack of rational consideration actually prevents the design and implementation of plans to significantly ameliorate the impact of such a horrible event as a nuclear detonation in a city.
HERE are the effects, for any locality, for any size of bomb, for ground- or air-bursts: http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Another interesting site that I found deals with the actual amelioration of the effects of a nuclear blast: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/08/simple-and-affordable-defences-against.html
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posted on
06/13/2018 3:22:05 PM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be f Vanceree." A. E. van Vogt)
To: Charles Martel
One of my favorites...I’ve even been able to work that into a few conversations over the years (though not with anyone named Norm - that’s a bit much to ask). Tanks for the memories....
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posted on
06/13/2018 3:23:23 PM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be f Vanceree." A. E. van Vogt)
To: NRx
I saw the cover photo and hit the back button.
There’s a movie I cannot recall which more-accurately portrays such a vehicle: It’s a facsimile of a police van.
It could also be a school bus...anything but a decrepit vehicle begging for a bored officer to pull it over (ala Timothy McVeigh).
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posted on
06/13/2018 3:23:39 PM PDT
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus-)
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