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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

A nuke in DC would impact minorities and women disproportionately.

Obviously.

Freegards


21 posted on 03/23/2024 6:18:16 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Political reform?


22 posted on 03/23/2024 6:18:23 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: maddog55

...paint a BIG target on the place!


23 posted on 03/23/2024 6:18:31 PM PDT by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of losers)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

24 posted on 03/23/2024 6:19:09 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Cody's Wish: thank you.)
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To: TigerClaws

Twenty million tops... depending on the breaks.


25 posted on 03/23/2024 6:19:22 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
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To: dadgum

Set K Street as Ground Zer0.


26 posted on 03/23/2024 6:19:28 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It would avoid a civil war. The red states could form their own country and attack blue states which would technically not be a civil war.


27 posted on 03/23/2024 6:20:10 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Are we talking about during one of the frequent congressional vacations or are we talking about during the presidential State of the Union?


28 posted on 03/23/2024 6:21:35 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I lived 11 miles southwest of the capitol building for 30 years. I spent most of those years either in the Pentagon or on Ft. McNair.


29 posted on 03/23/2024 6:22:25 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

30 posted on 03/23/2024 6:22:40 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The crime stats would change.


31 posted on 03/23/2024 6:23:44 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: ChicagoConservative27

32 posted on 03/23/2024 6:23:51 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Republic would be saved.


33 posted on 03/23/2024 6:25:26 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Seems like they’re trying to find out


34 posted on 03/23/2024 6:25:35 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What’s your point, Ms. Jacobsen?


35 posted on 03/23/2024 6:27:20 PM PDT by exinnj
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It wouldn’t be good news. If they can take out DC, they can take out important places as well.


36 posted on 03/23/2024 6:27:33 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I would feel bad about the innocent people. Both of them.


37 posted on 03/23/2024 6:28:14 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: desertsolitaire

12 miles offshore was 2 minutes roughly when they traveled 600 mph.

And now they’re much faster.

Cruise missiles would be first I’d guess.

Hope we’re not about to find out.


38 posted on 03/23/2024 6:29:25 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Everyone would be gone?

Hopefully, the IRS admins will be gone. Yay, no federal taxes for a while!

39 posted on 03/23/2024 6:30:04 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It would be the deep state doing it, they’d survive to crawl out and offer to “help”.


40 posted on 03/23/2024 6:30:51 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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