I live a half hour outside of Minneapolis. If it got nuked, I'd put my lead-lined pinstripe suit on and grab a bag of marshmallows...
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
I’d be unhappy about the damage to the wonderful museums, art galleries and memorial sites. The rest, death toll to politicians & their minions, oh well.
I would mourn the loss of those innocents caught in the conflagration.
But then I’d probably do some kind of Snoopy dance...
Considering the concentration of power and wealth that has occurred in recent years,
a considerable amount of net worth would go “poof” as well.
Not trying to be a smartass here but they also thought about hijacked aircraft. And we just saw it happen.
I absolutely agree they have nearly idiotproofed the system. But there is always...ALWAYS a better idiot. The coast guard does not inspect all ships. China has parked subs off the coast just outside the 12 mile limit for decades. And the Navy can’t do anything about it because they adhere to the international suicide pact.
Iran was just boasting about sending their navy over. In all honesty, who here thinks that this regime would provoke an ‘international incident’ by sinking them in international waters? But since their stated goal is obliterating us, and Allah has instructed them, there could easily be a china/Russia purchased nuke aboard. And any point along our coasts could get heavy fallout if not a direct hit when they blew it in those international waters.
Rats! There go the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress..."
I live a half hour outside of Minneapolis. If it got nuked, I'd put my lead-lined pinstripe suit on and grab a bag of marshmallows...
Well I’d probably mourn the end of the Cowboys-Redskins rivalry.
Pray that Ted Cruz was home in Texas with his Family.
Hey if you think this could happen and it does, good luck looking God in the face and explaining why you let you whole family die when you had ample opportunity to save them.
If you don’t think it could happen whether it does or not, well, good luck anyway.
I would expend the considerable amount of least years leftover fireworks
For example, during WWII the occupation of Yugoslavia required 400,000 Wehrmacht troops. Little Yugoslavia....
Thanks for your judgment. I really appreciate your lack of understanding as to why I'm here. I will however pray for you and all the others that pretend to understand my situation and have all the answers for me.
Well... I read the article. I didn’t see anything to indicate that it was intended to be humorous.
I guess many of your responses would be different if the nearby city was YOURS - but it’s not so we get your jokes.
I don’t believe I would react the way most of you have it was another place.
I think I know some of the steps I would take if a nuke was detonated downtown. None of my reactions would be to celebrate - and I seriously doubt you would either.
Mr. K - Do you have a plan if the question was about NYC?
(I didn’t celebrate on 9/11. I personally watched the Pentagon burn with acrid green smoke - and I have friends who were in the building.)
Eric T. - I have family in Florida. I would not “shrug” if a nuke went off in Vero Beach or Miami, neither would you.
Ivan - What if it was Chi-town. I wouldn’t pop a cork - that’s “crazy.”
Do you all think that the people is D.C. deserve to die?
What’s WRONG with you?
I am ashamed of many of you.
Tsk..tsk
Not ‘my’ judgement you need be worrying about. BTW, I’m not ‘judging’ anything. I’m stating a fact. Several actually. But since you brought it up, it sounds an awful lot like ‘don’t judge me”, which is a famous liberal phrase, as you know, designed to deflect other people’s opinions while bulling along in self righteousness.
If those conditions were met, then I'd throw a party.
They need to get out of Sodom.
A neutron bomb would be cleaner...
War, war never changes...
(paying homage to one of my favorite games ever!)
Here’s a dirty little secret.
You wouldn’t need to actually touch off a nuke, radioactive dirty bomb, or bio weapon dirty bomb to bring the country to it’s knees.
Having a bomb of this type in place and having it “discovered” before it went off would cause mass panic on a scale most people can’t imagine.
Tens of millions of people would start fleeing the major cities all over the country because of the possibility of a second bomb.
To get an idea of what it would be like, look at what happened during hurricane Rita after the mass panic that was created by hurricane Katrina.
People didn’t want to risk getting caught in another New Orleans post Katrina type situation and millions tried to flee before the storm.
I saw it first hand, and it looked like something from an apocalyptic syfy movie.
Tens of millions of people would be trying to go somewhere safe without any idea where they were going.
With the amount of traffic on the roads you’re lucky to go 100 miles in 24 hours.
Small town gas stations run out of fuel on the first day.
Thousands of cars are abandoned because they run out of gas.
Store shelves in small towns are stripped.
The one saving grace that kept people somewhat in line and not turning into desperate mob willing to do anything was the fact here in Texas people are armed.
I’d think that’s the last thing someone would want to use. I mean if you are going to go to the level of nuking DC, I’d think it would be as an example...a ‘salt the earth’ kind of thing so that the seat of the great Satan was forever (well for a long time) used as an example.
Standard communist/Muslim philosophy to destroy a country/people’s symbols of power.
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