A 50-kelo ton hydrogen bomb with the US Capitol as the target will have a blast zone of about 45 miles, everything inside the Capital Beltway would be inside the fireball, 10,000 degrees F.
Everything outside the beltway extending 100 miles from ground zero would instantly catch fire from the heat from the blast. The resulting firestorm would suck all the O2 from the air. The shockwave would knock down all structures. Everything within that 100 miles would be dead in less then a minute. This 100 miles reaches all the way to the mountain range west of the city.
A cruse missile travels at about 650 miles per hours, fired from a sub 50 miles offshore from DC would take about 15 minutes to reach it’s target.
There will be no warning, all the elites will already be in their bunkers.
Re: 179 - Oh come on. 100 miles would “instantly” catch fire?
And a blast zone of 45 miles?
From a 50Kt nuke? Good grief.
Do you have ANY references for your claims?