the only people the norks have nuked so far is themselves, but leave it to NYers to make it all about them
Nuclear effects calculator - can play with different yields,
locations, burst characteristics
http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
70 KT detonated in lower Manhattan - destroys all of lower Manhattan, extending into Jersey City and Brooklyn
Okay, a rhetorical question:
How much damage can flying two planes into a couple of large buildings in New York City and the capitol building and the third, crashed in a field? Only 3000 people died. What happens if tens of thousands of people die or at injured?
Seems like it devastated our country for a long while... after the initial attack. Plus, it resulted in war and then another war.
North Korea might simply send an innocent looking ship or plane to the United States and use it to unleash a bomb.
As usual I remember the left giving Reagan grief over his Star Wars
From the New York perspective, there is no such place as North Korea, because it is not between the New York Atlantic coast and the Hudson River. So everything will be just fine in New York.
It depends on how close you are when it lads.
Kimmy will try going long, to the degree of nuking Yellowstone, nuking Fukushima, Honolulu or indeed a high altitude emp burst which is the most difficult.
Thing is they cannot shield a device strong enough.
But if they blew up Fukushima the fallout would indeed nearly destroy America.
If the Chinese are funneling their designs to the Norks, as seems to be the case, they favor 5 Megaton city busters.
For comparison, the US mostly deploys half megaton warheads.
I continue to be amazed that no one is talking about the devastation from an EMP attack, the easiest to do, and one for which the Nork weapons are capable. Properly placed, one of their dinky little devices could take out (irreplaceably) the North American power grid and a large fraction of electronic devices across the US. Read the book ‘One Second After’ (Newt Gingrich forward). Why the President has not explained this to the public .... well, I think they are withholding this for the last discussion ... just before the balloon goes up.
How about some target practice...missile or bomber
39.040277 deg North
125.739722 deg East
USS Pueblo, Potong River NK
Captured Jan 23, 1968