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What would happen to Washington, DC if attacked by a nuclear bomb?
Nypost ^ | 03/23/2024

Posted on 03/23/2024 6:09:36 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Hell on Earth. Washington, DC, Possibly Sometime in the Near Future

A 1-megaton thermonuclear weapon detonation begins with a flash of light and heat so tremendous it is impossible for the human mind to comprehend. One hundred and eighty million degrees Fahrenheit is four or five times hotter than the temperature at the center of the sun.

In the first fraction of a millisecond after the bomb strikes the Pentagon, there is light. Soft X-ray light with a very short wavelength. The light superheats the surrounding air to millions of degrees, creating a massive fire-ball that expands at millions of miles per hour. Within seconds, this fireball increases to a diameter of a little more than a mile, its light and heat so intense that concrete surfaces explode, metal objects melt or evaporate, stone shatters, humans instantaneously convert into combusting carbon. The five-story, five-sided structure and everything inside its 6.5 million square feet of office space explodes into superheated dust; all 27,000 Pentagon employees perishing instantly.

Not a single thing in the fireball remains. Nothing. Ground zero is zeroed.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: attacked; dc; newnationalholiday; nuclear; standingovation; washington
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To: ChicagoConservative27

121 posted on 03/23/2024 10:28:27 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’d say that there is a good chance they would miss and some poor suburb in Pennsylvania would be blown out of existence.


122 posted on 03/23/2024 10:37:48 PM PDT by rexthecat
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To: HYPOCRACY
The red states could form their own country and attack blue states which would technically not be a civil war.

Unfair!! The blue states don't have any guns!!

123 posted on 03/23/2024 10:40:04 PM PDT by rexthecat
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hmmmm, I’d miss the Smithsonian Institution. But a host of Deep State apparatchiks …. Ah, not so much.


124 posted on 03/23/2024 11:05:34 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigots!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sodom and Gomorrah wold be totally destroyed, excep[t for Nancy Pelosis dental plate. Those buck teeth are made from Duranium.


125 posted on 03/24/2024 12:40:36 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Congress would immediately set up a commission to study the problem...
They would set a 180-day deadline for a report...
In 6 months they would say they need another 180-days...


126 posted on 03/24/2024 12:50:32 AM PDT by SuperLuminal ( hen we so desperately need him)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This sounds like what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah when God’s wrath descended upon man’s wickedness. Lot and his two daughters were saved but Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt for disobeying God’s order not to look back. (Genesis 19)

When you depart Washington DC, DO NOT LOOK BACK lest you, too, turn into a pillar of salt.

A friend of mine, with whom I used to work, heard a news clip about a foreign threat to “nuke Washington DC.” We both looked at each other and laughed, “What is the downside?”

Is there any place on Earth containing more concentrated wickedness?


127 posted on 03/24/2024 1:34:03 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The lives of millions would be immediately improved?


128 posted on 03/24/2024 4:06:40 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: Ransomed
A nuke in DC would impact minorities and women disproportionately.

So you're saying nuking DC would be raaaaaaaaaaaaaacist!

129 posted on 03/24/2024 4:26:41 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I would morn the destruction of the historic aircraft at the Smithsonian.


130 posted on 03/24/2024 4:43:32 AM PDT by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We might have a chance....


131 posted on 03/24/2024 4:59:56 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Our political problems would be solved. 😏


132 posted on 03/24/2024 5:49:35 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fear porn for thirsty, scared readers of the NY Post.

Drink it up.


133 posted on 03/24/2024 5:52:24 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Peter ODonnell

excellent reasoned post...there is still hope for Freepr,ha


134 posted on 03/24/2024 5:57:25 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate f America and Freedom.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

America would finally be rid of the plague that is Maryland


135 posted on 03/24/2024 6:03:56 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: Swordmaker

Hopefully the Aeronautical Museum and the NRA Museum would be far enough away to keep from being damaged. I would mourn the loss of Arlington though.


136 posted on 03/24/2024 6:06:40 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: usconservative

Everything and anything now is racists. From brushing your teeth to combing your hair. if it can be done it is racists. If it can’t be done, it is racists.


137 posted on 03/24/2024 6:09:12 AM PDT by sport
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The heavens would rejoice. At long last, Satan’s lair would be destroyed. And it would be great if a small chunk of meteorite landed on the New York Times building, closing another gateway to hell. /spit


138 posted on 03/24/2024 6:58:08 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

China and Russia wouldn’t do it they need the insiders to get their work done for them.

Joey rings bell on desk.


139 posted on 03/24/2024 7:04:41 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Freedom would reign once again?


140 posted on 03/24/2024 7:06:08 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Tonight on The Bickersons... )
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