Posted on 12/18/2019 12:32:40 PM PST by SaveFerris
A nuclear attack on US soil would most likely target one of six cities: New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Washington, DC.
But public-health experts say any of those cities would struggle to provide emergency services to the wounded.
The cities also no longer have designated fallout shelters to protect people from radiation.
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The chance that a nuclear bomb would strike a US city is slim, but nuclear experts say it's not out of the question.
A nuclear attack in a large metropolitan area is one of the 15 disaster scenarios for which the US Federal Emergency Management Agency has an emergency strategy. The agency's plan involves deploying first responders, providing immediate shelter for evacuees, and decontaminating victims who have been exposed to radiation.
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[ Why Colorado Springs??? ]
I believe they’re referring to the AF base there and other things it supports.
Disregard my previous... you were referring to strategic importance.
Yep.. I later caught on. Thanks.
"The agency's plan involves deploying first responders, providing immediate shelter for evacuees, and decontaminating victims who have been exposed to radiation."
All of this after about 5 subcommittees in both the Senate and House hold meetings to be sure the gubment response is distributed equitably in order that women, children, LGBT community, DACA members, undocumented immigrants (migrant invaders), essential federal employees (every last one of them), at risk wild life species, carbon footprint issues, and elected politicians receive appropriate priorities...
The key problem will be if the attack occurs just before a scheduled congressional recess and the meetings and responses would have to wait until they returned to DC after the recess was over...
“Sure. It’s not like the old days when the USSR would have hit us with hundreds of nukes -”
Not hundreds, thousands. The USSR had around 31,000 warheads in 1991. Even taking out artillery style and other tactical nukes, we would have been hit with several thousand in the 1980s. Any target would have had 6 or 7 nukes hit it. And we could have done the same.
Spooky times.
Handing out 1950’s school desks probably is FEMA’s strategy. With millions in storage, they also constitute the national steel reserve.
NORAD is located under Cheyenne Mountain, near Colorado Springs.
Maybe. It has been known to relocate.
“Can one prepare?”
A few seconds to kiss your a$$ goodbye I guess could be considered preparation.
The PLA can, and will, make a mistake. It's a certainty that before most of the people reading this are received into the Lord's Grace, China will make a mistake.
They can take all six of them, as far as I'm concerned. Even as a Texan, I don't consider Houston anything worth saving ... it will just make a very wide bay in the Ship Channel ...
The Soviet RDS-202 hydrogen bomb (code name Ivan[3] or Vanya), known by Western nations as Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бо́мба, tr. Tsar'-bómba, IPA: [t͡sarʲ ˈbombə], lit. 'Tsar bomb'), was allegedly the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created.
Tested on 30 October 1961 as an experimental verification of calculation principles and multi-stage thermonuclear weapon designs, it also remains the most powerful man-made explosive ever detonated.
The bomb was detonated at the Sukhoy Nos ("Dry Nose") cape of Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya, 15 km (9.3 mi) from Mityushikha Bay, north of Matochkin Strait.[4][5][6] The detonation was secret but was detected by US Intelligence agencies. The US apparently had an instrumented KC-135R aircraft (Operation SpeedLight[7]) in the area of the test, close enough to have been scorched by the blast.[2][8]
The bhangmeter results and other data suggested the bomb yielded about 58 megatons of TNT [Mt] (240 PJ),[9] and that was the accepted yield in technical literature until 1991 when Soviet scientists revealed that their instruments indicated a yield of 50 Mt (210 PJ).[2] As they had the instrumental data and access to the test site, their yield figure has been accepted as more correct.[2][8]
In theory, the bomb would have had a yield in excess of 100 Mt (420 PJ) if it had included a uranium-238 tamper, but because only one bomb was built, that capability has never been demonstrated.
Just how would you prepare for a nuclear attack? Everyone would be dead.
Ditto here. It would be an improvement.
Many people from other countries went to school in Boston. lthey have not put it on any nuke list.
However Both Hartford and Portland are on lists and I suspect they plan on the fallout to kill most of boston.
... substitute Denver or Boulder for Houston. Nuking Houston would accomplish nothing except reduce the GimmyDat population.
Riigghhtt. :)
How many million degrees for how long would it take to sterilize the poop that's been left in the streets?
WHY ISN”T DC INCLUDED - SHOULD BE FIRST IF TRUMP IS TRAVELING AND OUT OF TOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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