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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

...And nothing of value would be lost.


41 posted on 03/23/2024 6:31:40 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Liberalism is a tyranny that MUST be overthrown.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I suspect state rights would take over until a national convention could be convened.


42 posted on 03/23/2024 6:31:48 PM PDT by mware
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To: Yo-Yo

Urban renewal at warp speed!


43 posted on 03/23/2024 6:31:52 PM PDT by meyer (Psalm 83)
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To: Gaffer
Live about 9 miles beyond the Capital Beltway at approximately 10:30 on a clock-face dial with the White House being the center of said clock.

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.

44 posted on 03/23/2024 6:32:23 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

45 posted on 03/23/2024 6:33:00 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FLT-bird

Just let us evacuate the National Archives first.


46 posted on 03/23/2024 6:34:00 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


47 posted on 03/23/2024 6:35:10 PM PDT by Deaf and Discerning
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To: FLT-bird

Nobody would notice?

Productivity would skyrocket?

Free Speech would be allowed?

Angels would sing?


48 posted on 03/23/2024 6:35:55 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nuclear attack?
Come on. Keep your eye on the ball.


49 posted on 03/23/2024 6:36:17 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (Clown World)
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To: TigerClaws

Mussed.


50 posted on 03/23/2024 6:40:12 PM PDT by DownInFlames (p)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


51 posted on 03/23/2024 6:41:20 PM PDT by abigkahuna
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To: DCPatriot

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.


52 posted on 03/23/2024 6:41:38 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: TigerClaws

Buck Turgidson is a good man.


53 posted on 03/23/2024 6:41:40 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Designated Survivor.


54 posted on 03/23/2024 6:43:00 PM PDT by vivenne (⁹)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
A strike on Washington as described would be bad; many innocent people would be killed.

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.

55 posted on 03/23/2024 6:44:54 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They’d stop spending…


56 posted on 03/23/2024 6:45:36 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It would be a shame, a real shame.

Where is my violin?


57 posted on 03/23/2024 6:47:31 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My kid lives 17 miles northwest of DC and out of the blast radius. Prevailing wind limits fallout in his direction.

Just sayin.


58 posted on 03/23/2024 6:48:49 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bloodbath!


59 posted on 03/23/2024 6:49:15 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

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!!!!


60 posted on 03/23/2024 6:49:58 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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