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"Well, that pretty much assures that the attempt will be on the coast line. Those are the only population centers large enough to have the kind of effect the terrorist would want. Looks like New York, Miami, Philly or else San Francisco, LA or Seattle."

Count on it being either NYC or Washington. Both offer good population density, excellent assured "mainstream" media coverage worldwide. NYC area is heavily-Jewish; half of all U.S. Jews live in NYC metro area. Washington - despite "shadow government" in Fuhrerbunkers - offers likely destruction of federal government functionality.

Right now, snailmail crawls in Washington area due to USPS irradiation of all snailmail there after anthrax mess. That's as in crawls even when all facilities and personnel are intact. Now imagine what snailmail would be like after loss of 50% of USPS facilities in a major metro center and loss of 50% of USPS personnel there. The Left never got it when ridiculing Reagan about change-of-address cards for nuclear-war survivors; in reality, "continuity of (federal) government" just won't happen after even just Washington is nuked - as the mid-level cadres of the bureaucracy and their facilities won't be there for the guys in the Fuhrerbunkers to command.

For any Muslim that thinks this solves or fixes their problems...big mistake. We will shut all doors on visiting Arabs for the next ten years. That means attendance at universities for rich Arab students will halt overnight. Our friends in UK and Europe will likely take same stance, as well Japan and South Korea. Higher education will be limited to strictly the middle east. As for Arab businessmen who regularly come to the U.S....prepare for massive paperwork and escorted status while in the U.S. We will help the middle east back to the stone age as much as possible. Our policy of reacting to any threat will be immedate, no matter who thinks they are pretender allies of the U.S. Saudi Arabia had better bring out the checkbook and start the first check to nuked area. I would guess their donation ought to be in the $10 billion range to start with. Life forever changes when this nuke comes....it will put us all on a massive wake-up call about idiots running around the globe who are anti-American.

A west coast attack would potentially take out more people due to wind distribution of the radioactive cloud.

I guess it would depend if the terrorists would be trying to make a point and cripple the Govt (DC) or want to run up casualties (Gay Bay).

No one is talking about a ship parked in a harbor. Why?

A New York City blast would also take out the United Nations, a much despised target of terrorists.

It isn't a good time to be living in the Big Apple....

Count on it being either NYC or Washington. Both offer good population density, excellent assured "mainstream" media coverage worldwide. NYC area is heavily-Jewish; half of all U.S. Jews live in NYC metro area.

And a good chunk of the rest live in east Florida. Maybe West Palm Beach? Right near where the terrorists were based?