i'm the guy on the left (but w/crew cut)
Posted on 04/14/2014 6:13:21 AM PDT by stevie_d_64
Funny question in the headline, yes?
But since President Obama worries more about the threat of terrorists' improvised nuclear device going off in a major American city than anything Russia can throw at us, I was wondering if the government had deigned to share with us citizens any tips for, you know, surviving something their own intelligence points to as the likeliest unlikely Black Swan event.
Well, no. And yes.
No — very few people in Washington, D.C., who work for the government have any idea what they would do if a 10-kiloton nuclear device exploded at the intersection of 16th and K streets.
You can always look to movies to figure this stuff out, right? And in movies, since nuclear radiation is BAD, the thing to do is to get away from it as quickly as possible. In the movies, electronics are fried, too, the response is chaotic, and hundreds of thousands of people die.
Interestingly enough, though, the government has done quite a bit of work to figure out what exactly would happen if a suitcase nuke — which, I know, doesn't really exist, but, for the sake of this example, bear with me — actually did explode a few blocks from the White House.
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Write an appropriate thank you note?
Oh, for Gods sake woman, have you no common sense?
Life for you must be fantastic there or you would take the parents and move.. If they refused you could hire someone to take care of them so probably you really like it there.
That’s OK I really like it here even tho’ I complain about the summer heat. I am not moving to a cooler climate even tho’ I could.
cargo shop parked 12 miles off shore can easily hold a lead cased nuke. the Navy does not stop and search them all.
Any anti missile systems could not respond fast enough to stop a missile launch from such a ship before it covered several miles. A simple time problem. Even if it detonated 12 miles off shore, the fallout would end DC as a viable place to exist.
Probably get Chinese food
First thing I thought of.. LOL
Say a prayer for the few decent souls who died, then thank the thug nation that did it, and then work to annihilate that nation and all adherents to its belief system or systems.
Because someone has cruelly nailed your inlaws feet to the ground?
Elderly move to be with their children caretakers all the time.
Dance with JOY that the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT was disabled.
Wait for Eric Holder to blame it on racism? Assuming he was out of town.
Continue to search for the flight recorder box from the Malaysian plane.
I don’t know what kind of attack or where it’s going to be, but the left is definitely making preparations for a terrorist attack and the preparations clearly indicate the intent is to blame it on the “right wing extremist TEA Party”.
i'm the guy on the left (but w/crew cut)
Maybe not a good idea to rejoice in DC being blown off the map...cuz it will take my son's, too.
I just would like to say Thank You! You must think I'm either as cold hearted as you or rich enough to hire people to take care of my in laws. For the record, they are not objects to be picked up and moved.
Besides, the real discussion here is the fact that so many here would jump at the opportunity to dance on the radioactive ashes of innocent people to make some sick political point.
Of course. They are nearly out of options and the world is turning against their liberalism. They got so far this time they CANNOT lose it.
So we will get Reischtagd. Sure as night follows day.
"I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad."
I wouldn’t get too comfortable if I was you.
They are definitely laying the ground work to blame it on “right wing extremist TEA Party”.
What the left is doing right now is exactly the same thing that was done before the OKC bombing and the attempted 2010 fertilizer car bomb in NYC.
It was a joke thread! You got your panties in a bunch over a joke!
If a nuclear bomb exploded in downtown Washington, would you care or notice?
“For the record, they are not objects to be picked up and moved.”
Elderly people move all the time to be near caretakers.
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