Posted on 03/23/2024 6:09:36 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Hell on Earth. Washington, DC, Possibly Sometime in the Near Future
A 1-megaton thermonuclear weapon detonation begins with a flash of light and heat so tremendous it is impossible for the human mind to comprehend. One hundred and eighty million degrees Fahrenheit is four or five times hotter than the temperature at the center of the sun.
In the first fraction of a millisecond after the bomb strikes the Pentagon, there is light. Soft X-ray light with a very short wavelength. The light superheats the surrounding air to millions of degrees, creating a massive fire-ball that expands at millions of miles per hour. Within seconds, this fireball increases to a diameter of a little more than a mile, its light and heat so intense that concrete surfaces explode, metal objects melt or evaporate, stone shatters, humans instantaneously convert into combusting carbon. The five-story, five-sided structure and everything inside its 6.5 million square feet of office space explodes into superheated dust; all 27,000 Pentagon employees perishing instantly.
Not a single thing in the fireball remains. Nothing. Ground zero is zeroed.
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To me Jericho quickly became about dating and relationships after nuclear war, it was sort of a soap opera.
I’d miss the Smithsonian.
My first thought!
Uh......
:Closes mouth firmly:
What would happen if a republican president cut a deal with another country to nuke NYC, Baltimore, Chicago, SF, LA, Seattle? Republicans would win the presidency and senate for the next 32 years, and Marxism would be replaced by “You work you eat you live”.
Women, children, minorities, LGBQT hardest hit.
W e could breathe again
I have family and close friends in Fairfax and Loudon Counties in Virginia. :(
I wish they’d leave that area.
The OP suggested the target being the Pentagon...so all discussion forward was with that in mind.
Was merely pointing out that I would most likely survive the original blast only...no subsequent radiation poisoning or dying from starvation, etc..
IMO, the IRS probably doesn't know their ass from their elbow right now. They've been hacked...which explains the overabundance of radio commercials offering tax relief.
Don't forget. A whistleblower gets 10% of whatever is collected from a delinquent account.
The very first thing they'll collect from you in the initial contact with said 'company' is your personal information.
They don't give a rat's bleep about lowering your tax bill.
The culture would improve almost instantly.
It would be the 4th of july all over again.
I suspect state rights would take over until a national convention could be convened.>>> Why our form of government wouldn’t need to change at all. The country is essentially functioning without a president right now. The country had no president or congress before George W. State national guards would defend the country like they are doing now in texas. Maybe take over the military with all the gays and trannies running the place. And states don’t have rights people do.
If it happened out of the blue, the federal government would cease to exist, but if it happened after even a relatively short escalation, the key people would be evacuated to safer locations and the nuclear strike would have little strategic value and a predictable consequence of destructive retaliation against (apparent) perpetrators.
I would imagine there are protocols to start evacuating key people in situations where tensions were rising. I don’t know if it has ever taken place (other than George W. Bush being prevented from returning to DC after 9-11), possibly in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis?
I don’t think it’s a secret that there are deep underground bunkers in the mountains near VA-WV border equipped for long-term residency and functioning of the U.S. government. A president would likely declare martial law and if not much of Congress survived, that president would probably rule by decree, or at least try to do so, quite possibly some states would declare it invalid and their state governments would be the recognized authorities, it would depend on the political situation before any such eventuality.
I cannot imagine a situation where a nuclear attack was limited to one location, anyone doing that would be inviting a massive retaliation, so the macabre logic of the situation is that a first strike should be massive to do as much as possible to reduce retaliation. Or, if the intent is nuclear blackmail (as in “do our will or more will come”) then to try that approach it would make sense to pick a symbolic target to demonstrate capability and intent, without raising the anger level to an automatic response. For example, if a hostile power with a desire to force a response wanted to make a point, they could say “in 24 hours, we will detonate a nuclear weapon at these co-ordinates (in remote unpopulated area like one finds in parts of interior west), give time for the very few inhabitants to leave, close access, then set it off and start the blackmail.
I don’t suppose the above would ever happen because there is no point, a nuclear power can start blackmail by just saying it is “on” without demonstrating what we already know, that they can set off a bomb. We as civilians cannot be entirely sure this has never happened, but our side could do it also, and perhaps we already have. Who’s to say that China is not on notice to stay out of Taiwan “or else x y and z will happen.” And that could have been U.S. policy since any year since 1960. Of course such a policy could be less than formal, it could have been communicated informally by any U.S. administration since late Eisenhower. Same goes with Russia (formerly USSR), they may well have been told, not just left to surmise, that appearance of Russian troops beyond stated borders would have predictable consequences.
Who knows, Russia today may have been told at some point after 2014, don’t cross the Dneiper, we will look the other way for Crimea and east Ukraine, or pretend to be angry, but if you cross the Dneiper (or come past a certain line in north Ukraine), it means all out war. There would be no particular reason to tell anyone about it, but it would explain why Zelensky persists. It would also explain why Russia never made much of a push towards Kyiv.
If I were at the NY Post, I would be more concerned about a nuclear strike on NYC than DC. But I would guess that both would be targets at the same time.
“Of course such a policy could be less than formal, it could have been communicated informally by any U.S. administration since late Eisenhower. Same goes with Russia (formerly USSR), they may well have been told, not just left to surmise, that appearance of Russian troops beyond stated borders would have predictable consequences.”
Nixon told the story of how it was important for the leaders of the world to know each other. Even more important between enemies.
He told the story of Brezhnev(?) telling him that he would move Soviet troops into some valley just outside of Israel, and then Nixon would need to move our troops in. Nixon said that was a terrible idea having enemy troops in such close proximity - just waiting for an incident/accident to happen.
So he told Brezhnev that the USA had other options available to us if necessary.
“Now, Brezhnev might have thought that I was bluffing, but he knew me, and I knew him. He didn’t send his troops.”
Whether Nixon was telling a made-up story I have no idea. But it does sound plausible. Nixon made it sound like he spoke often with Brezhnev and others.
I did hear Nixon in an interview say that he would NEVER say that some sort of military option would NOT be used in some situation.
I don't see why the states couldn't preserve the union, for the most part.
More like a nuclear psunami... they even have it depicted into our $100 bills.
APB would be put out for Madonna :)
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