[Dan Day]

But then confusion reigns. The city is on fire, there is no evacuation plan, the people are wandering the streets and becoming irradiated from the fallout. Over the next month, the death toll climbs over a million or more.

No, it doesn't.

You did a good job correcting the wild overestimates of the number of dead from the blast, then you turn around and wildly overestimate the number of radiation deaths...

A "suitcase nuke" would be less than a tenth the size of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs, and even *they* didn't kill more than about 100,000 people *combined*, which includes the blast, fire, *and* radiation fatalities.

[JoeSchem]

A "suitcase nuke" would be less than a tenth the size of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs, and even *they* didn't kill more than about 100,000 people *combined*, which includes the blast, fire, *and* radiation fatalities.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki had nowhere near the population density of New York City. Factor that into your calculations.