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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...And nothing of value would be lost.
I suspect state rights would take over until a national convention could be convened.
Urban renewal at warp speed!
Considering wind currents typically travel from Southwest to Northeast, chances of survival are pretty good.
Suppose it would depend on the height of the device when it detonates.
Just let us evacuate the National Archives first.
No survivors? Fear not! The cockroaches will inherit Washington and keep us safe. They’ll form a new government, complete with tiny podiums and debates about whether or not to ban insecticides.
Nobody would notice?
Productivity would skyrocket?
Free Speech would be allowed?
Angels would sing?
Nuclear attack?
Come on. Keep your eye on the ball.
Mussed.
While we can laugh and joke about the prospect of nuclear war amd the destruction of DC—remember, the Helots are planning for just such a scenario to remove a few billion off the planet in a “safe and effective” manner.
I am so tired of all this crap. Let the Russians have their happiness, same with the Chinese and us here in America. The Davos crowd needs to have the wings of their private jets clipped.
Yes...yield and detonation height are the ultimate factors I guess. In any case, you should think about relocating to somewhere else when you retire, IMO. There are too many possibilities for some foreign group attacking DC at some time in the future.
Buck Turgidson is a good man.
Designated Survivor.
One good thing I can think of: all the Confederate statues have been removed from the strike zone.
After such a disaster we will need heroes to remember and emulate.
They’d stop spending…
It would be a shame, a real shame.
Where is my violin?
My kid lives 17 miles northwest of DC and out of the blast radius. Prevailing wind limits fallout in his direction.
Just sayin.
Bloodbath!
Congress would be gone and that would be reason for celebration by itself.
Just think, EPA, FDA, CDC, NIH, FBI, CIA, and all the other alphabet offices would be GONE too!!!!
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