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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Rejoice?
(This toooo easy.)
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Move.
Poor Sodom.
Poor Gomorrah.
“Are you willing to sacrifice the lives of these innocents....”
“WE” did not/will not do this...... and we HOPE and PRAY it does not happen........ besides it’s a joke question.
What? Take responsibility for their own safety? What kind of crazy idea is that?
I would wonder if Hollyweird or San Fran were next
You mean after I finish celebrating, right?
Nope!
Enjoy your callousness! Choke on it in fact and have a nice life.
try Freepers who are in the area. We DC area freepers are accustomed to having our deaths cheered by others here.
Not my problem you chose to live next to the world’s biggest bullseye.
I would forge a 9-layer PDF ‘birth certificate’ and take over the Presidency.
Hey Laz! Don't you think I want to?!?! MY WIFE'S parents are the only reason we are here.
If you wanted to bad enough you would. If you “HAD” to, you could. So it’s a choice.
Last week Rush was talking about how the Obama adm. was orchestrating the collapse of the legal system.
What Rush didn’t tell people is the plan to collapse the legal system and overthrow the govt. of the US is Hillary Clinton’s failed plan from Bill Clinton’s impeachment days called “The Scorched Earth Policy”.
The same plan was tried in July of 2009.
The plan was derailed by El Rushbo when he pinned the plan to Hillary instead of Obama.
El Rushbo lost his NFL team because of it.
The clown Obama recently nominated and failed to get confirmed in the DoJ Civil Rights Division, let it be known to anyone that bothered to listen, his mission statement was to collapse the legal system.
You win the Internet!
Practically speaking, a nuclear detonation in a major city is not going to happen, because for a long time, sensors have been used that detect any significant radiation source.
They are good enough to every now and then get a reading from a person who has recently had radioisotope medical treatment. And compared to that, a nuclear bomb would look like a volcano.
And realistically speaking, the best terrorists might come up with is called a “dirty bomb”, which is basically high grade nuclear waste, blown up with ordinary explosives. It is not a fission explosion. But this has serious problems.
To start with, the most dangerous isotopes (think different metals), are quite heavy. If you took powdered lead or gold, and blew it up in the air, the vast majority would fall down within a few yards. And these isotopes are heavier than that.
The lightest isotopes have short half-lives, which means from the time they are created, the clock is ticking, and with every half-life, half of the isotopes are no longer radioactive. So by the time they are smuggled into the US, it would be pretty inert.
So it is the middle isotopes, like Cesium, that are the biggest worry. But the governments of the world intensely monitor the production and storage of these, so getting your hands on some is somewhat harder than breaking into a major bank vault.
“I will not rest until these criminals are brought to justice!”
There, lip service is done.
So I should just divorce my wife because she is helping her elderly mother and father in the final years of their lives? Believe me, I've wanted to be rid of this area for years.
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