What would happen to Washington, DC if attacked by a nuclear bomb?

Nypost ^ | 03/23/2024

[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.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Everyone would be gone?

[LibFreeUSA]

Including the Commies and RINOs.

[FLT-bird]

The rest of us would celebrate?

[BenLurkin]

Size matters.

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

[Yo-Yo]

What would happen to Washington, DC if attacked by a nuclear bomb?

There would suddenly and instantly be hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of improvements made to the city.

[maddog55]

America could start over.

[TigerClaws]

“I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair missed…”

[verum ago]

On this topic I'm struck by a line that I don't remember well enough to quote verbatim from a Tom Clancy novel. It's part of Jack Ryan's musings in his own head. It basically boils down to something like this:

if DC were taken out, the country would probably be safer for the time being.

[Gaffer]

I suspect a lot of block parties across the US.

[Dead Corpse]

The celebration in the rest of the Country would last for weeks...

[Rummyfan]

It would be one heckuva mess. I’m going to dinner in The District tomorrow night. I hope everything will be okay. I’m more concerned about a carjacking than a nuclear incident.

[Singermom]

We THE PEOPLE could live in peace.

[KSCITYBOY]

If it was limited to DC America might eventually prosper

[dadgum]

If it meant the destruction of the ruling class of political whores, their lackeys and their sugar daddies- I’m ok with it.

[XRdsRev]

Well that pesky Constitution would be gone.

[desertsolitaire]

Would there be enough warning of incoming missiles for employees of pentagon to evacuate beyond blast zone or to survivable civil defence shelters? I guess depends on if the birds incoming were from continental Russia or SLBM from boomers sitting off our coast. In that case the time to flee is severely reduced.

[Navy Patriot]

What would happen to Washington, DC if attacked by a nuclear bomb?

Karma.

[sasquatch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzigR99mcuw

[JJBookman]

Ding-dong the witch is dead, the wicked witch, the wicked witch...

[fightin kentuckian]

There’s no such thing as a stupid question......

Except that one!