[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.

[Hellmouth]

The Red Sox finally win a World Series....

[Sabertooth]

And a Global Kum-Bay-Yah Telethon.

[WyCoKsRepublican]

Thought provoking question. I never ceases to amaze me that it takes a major disaster to wake a lot of people up. I work with a lot of these "clowns" that if they didn't see it on CNN, it wasn't important. WOW! are we in trouble or what?????? I recall being at work on 9/ll following the events on the internet and by word of mouth. I was getting the news off FR and Newsmax, etc faster than the networks. I thought I'd converted a few "naive" souls. Months later, the complacency is back. Dey gots deh MTV and dat all dat mattuh.....YO!

[Bobby777]

stop it! ... you're making me LOL ... hehe ... (keep going I mean!)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"The left coast and midwest are safe. "

Do you suppose there is a 10 mile high wall that stretches fom the Phillipines to Siberia? What goes around, comes around, literally.
Depending on the yield of the weapon detonated in NYC or DC, the fallout may not all land in Europe, Russia, etc...
The West Coast does have something to worry about.

[Tacis]

A nuke in NYC, after the NYC Holocaust, would suggest that there would be additional hits and that the campaign in Afghanistan hadn't been adequate to stop the next hit, i.e., the nuke in NYC. Therefore, premptive strikes on every country on the "harbors" list would be appropriate in an effort to stop the next hit in the US.

But, until the Mexican border is sealed, the next hit is inevitable. And, I wouldn't be surprised to find the Chinese behind the whole thing. Mecca, Medina, Riyadh, the Becca Valley, Tehran, Baghdad, and selected targets in Syria, Lybia, Indonesia and Saudi would all be nuked with bacon wrapped tacs.We must also round up all illegal aliens and especially those from countries on the "harbors" list. Bush and Ridge have turned national security into lots of government jobs but until the illegals are rounded up and the borders sealed, nothing real has been done.

[eddie willers]

The Red Sox finally win a World Series....

Too....too funny!

[LonePalm]

This pretty much sums it up.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LoanPalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[chainsaw]

Your correct. But you will see that I said most.

Most of the fallout will be in the Atlantic or Europe.

[razorbak]

Republicans pick up a key state.

[cynicom]

Chain...

In emergency, you aint gonna get out of NYC. That is why I left years ago.

[meadsjn]

And Sabertooth could write a heart-rending poem to be inscribed on the marble monument. <:-)

The Murican people are so incurably stupid they would still donate to Red Cross and United Way.

[Libloather]

Would America descend into anarchy...looting...rioting...mass hysteria...

If Springer and the WWF survive - yes...

[orion2021]

Then we gather inteligence and confirm targets and then we do what Wyatt did, and we seek a "reckoning". They call down the thunder, we give it to them in full.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

I think there would be only scattered minor disturbances in the rest of the country, though I do believe we'd have a run on the supermarkets and Wal-Marts like we did during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Also, dont forget banks. Im sure as hell taking my money out as soon as something like that happens. Ill need the money to buy food, water, guns, etc...Call that dumb, but I wont be the only one.

Also, how will the american public react. Will there be massive race rioting in the streets like there are in India right now? Think about it...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"But you will see that I said most. "

Yep. Definitely gotta get my eyes checked when I go in for them new glasses.   =;^)

[Sabertooth]

Also, dont forget banks. Im sure as hell taking my money out as soon as something like that happens. Ill need the money to buy food, water, guns, etc...Call that dumb, but I wont be the only one.

Two words...

Toilet paper.

Non-perishable, and imagine the barter potential.

$10 a roll.

[zog]

--doubt that cnn would take over atlanta, but the black muslim militia could if it wanted to.

As to nukes in a major city, I've been consistent over the years-move out of the major metro areas. Because if it's not a nuke you still got bios, or loss of infrastructure, or a riot or even just a normal little mugging or murder or rape that won't even make the newspaper.

Effects on the US? We have too many eggs in too few baskets economically. NYC poofing or chicago would seriously disrupt the economy, even if it only represents 1% of the population. Washington would make the government go completely bonkers apesquat and probably initiate world war three nuke exchange on reflex. No one can really predict what would happen in general-not really, but you can for sure predict what will happen to your family if you are outside the immediate blast or infection zone, and that is chances are pretty good "you'll cruise" a lot better than most folks if you take a lot of serious and sensible precautions NOW, and maintain them, and get a little training and adopt a survival mindset. Ignore it, and if something totally strange and big happens, you could very well be heading over to the fema soup and injections line someplace, ya never know.

You can't ask the people in the wtc who are gone now, but I'd bet a nickle if you had said to them a week previous to 9-11 what I just said they would have laughed and said it was tinfoil hat stuff.

Ya see the same thing with hurricanes, ever notice they always show these people with the hurricane like a few hours away cutting up plywood to make window coverings or stuck in evac traffic jams? They only live on the ocean, ho hum, no need to make pre made window coverings or to beat the rush out, ho hum. Checking out the empty aisles at the sooper market for food because they realise they got like two days worth of captain crunch and half a pizza hanging around. Ho hum.

Same deal more or less. Some prepare and adjust their living accordingly to changing world conditions and realities, some ignore it. Oh well. Nuthin's perfect, but "doing nuthin" for yourself and family who are depending on you is a lot less than perfect, too.