[vanity] If a nuke is set off in NYC, what then?

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Ok, so lets say that by a slim chance, a nuke DOES go off in NYC or DC or any city in the United States. What then?

Would we nuke every country on our "hit list"?

Would we turn the middle east into a radioactive crater?

Would America descend into anarchy...looting...rioting...mass hysteria...would there be any tv ...any news if NYC was hit?

Would there be martial law?

Would we finally build a wall on the northern and southern borders of the US?

In my opinion, if any country gets hit first it will be Russia. They have Muslim terrorists fighting a war in their OWN country, and they have their own soldiers and scientists selling their own weapons in their back yard. Now when Moscow gets evaportaed, THEN the world will really freak out.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

your thoughts? fears? predictions?

[First_Salute]

CNN takes over in Atlanta.

[Petronski]

I would expect a tightly-limited nuclear response if--and only if--we could determine state sponsership. No mass hysteria, no martial law (except maybe NYC).

[Petronski]

Whoops, that's 'sponsorship,' isn't it?

[BrooklynGOP]

your thoughts? fears? predictions?

At this rate nothing would change. We would still tell Israelis to practice "restraint", pressure russians on Chechnya and still pressure India on Kashmir..Then we would spend a few billion dollars on PR campaign to tell non muslims in US that Islam is GOOD, and muslims are GOOD.

[CreekerFreeper]

I think what this shows is that people still have not come to the realization that we must round up ALL MIDDLE-EASTERNERS/MUSLIMS/INDONESIANS/CENTRAL AMERICANS IN THIS COUNTRY and ship them out. You cut out the entire cancer, not part of it.

Get real...it's us or them, fellow Freepers.

[ThePoetsRaven]

What then???

Kiss your butt goodbye.

[gwynapnudd]

How did Ol' Hank put it?

"Turn me loose, set me free
Somewhere in the middle of Montana"

Won't change my day at all.

[dennisw]

Nuke 3 or 4 Arab capital cities, Mecca and Medina. Don't investigate, just do it automatically.  Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, Tehran (technically not Arab) would do just fine!

Rock their friggin' world. That's the way they like it. They love dominance/submission so rock 'em hard. Real hard. They like it that way.

[AppyPappy]

The Groundhog will come out of his Y2K bunker, see his shadow in the mushroom cloud and announce he was right after all.

[cynicom]

As a sidelight...

There has long been an evacuation plan for NYC, post nuclear or some other such calamity. Non workable but nevertheless, it is there.

[mvonfr]

Get real...it's us or them, fellow Freepers.

Get real, it is them, not us. They are serious about fighting, we are only serious about promoting the Peaceful Islam^TM bull.

[chainsaw]

Most of the fallout will be in the Atlantic or Europe. The left coast and midwest are safe.

However, the Brady bunch will call for a renewed drive to confiscate all guns ASAP.

[Wolfie]

If a nuke is set off in NYC, what then?

While I'm not sure of the specfics of the process, it generally involves atoms, fission and fusion kind of stuff, and then a super-neato big release of energy.

[csvset]

Hillary wouldn't be reelected?

[Sabertooth]

Israel should give up more land.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

I would expect a tightly-limited nuclear response if--and only if--we could determine state sponsership.

Yeah, good luck trying to prove it.

[week 71]

The entire world desends into the stone age.

[Sabertooth]

Latino outreach should be stepped up.