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2007-03-26 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Bobby 2007-03-26 05:57|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Who the F*CK is?
It's a fairly robust weapon.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-03-26 07:17|| 2007-03-26 07:17|| Front Page Top

#2 And how is this surprising? DC isn't prepared for anything even remotely approaching mildly dangerous on a city scale. A large increase in the rat swarm would be enough to take it out.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-03-26 07:43|| 2007-03-26 07:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Exactly how you prepare a city for nuclear attack?

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-26 07:54|| 2007-03-26 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Exactly how you prepare a city for nuclear attack?

In the case of Baltimore, make sure no one is away on vacation or business.

Everywhere else, make sure all legs of the triad are ready for a response.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-03-26 07:56|| 2007-03-26 07:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Exactly how do you prepare a city for nuclear attack?

You let it happen and blame Bush...

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-26 08:59|| 2007-03-26 08:59|| Front Page Top

#6 A new study from the University of Georgia...Kevin Harlan of the Northern Virginia Hospital Alliance..

Mo grant money, mo grant money. Look at me, look at me.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-03-26 09:08|| 2007-03-26 09:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Do the jihadists realize that their destroying the current ruling dhimmis in DC would rejuvenate the American political class, and move America back to its revolutionary roots?

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2007-03-26 11:11|| 2007-03-26 11:11|| Front Page Top

#8 When a third of the district is illiterate and the rest don't speak standard English, it is hard to set up anything resembling Civil Defense. Any attempt would be subsumed by a tide of cronyism, petty (and not so petty) theft, general incompetence, and overwhelming ignorance. Sorry, but not a big fan of the District and its denizens.

Posted by RWV 2007-03-26 11:18|| 2007-03-26 11:18|| Front Page Top

#9 You forgot the corrupt third that double-speaks and steals from Peter to fill the pockets of their friend Paul, or their own pockets, or just because they think that's what politics is about.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2007-03-26 12:14|| 2007-03-26 12:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Here's a link to the summary of Study details catastrophic impact of nuclear attack on U.S. cities.

And a link to the study itself in html. There's a link to a 7MB pdf in the left sidebar; it's a detailed and serious investigation; not just grant grubbing.

Two sizes of nuclear weapon were simulated. The explosion of a tactical nuclear weapon with a predicted yield of 20 kilotons (Kt) and the explosion of the most common size of strategic weapon in the Russian arsenal with a 550 Kt yield. A fission fraction of 1 was assumed for the smaller device and 0.8 was assumed for the 550 Kt device [22]. Both weapons were assumed to explode close to the ground surface, as in a truck or a ship. Bursts at higher levels would cause greater thermal and blast effects which would be somewhat offset by lower downwind radiation amounts.

Bell explained that a 20 kiloton weapon could be manufactured by terrorists and fledgling nuclear countries such as North Korea and Iran, while a 550 kiloton device is commonly found in the arsenal of the former Soviet Union and therefore is the most likely to be stolen by terrorists.

Among the studys findings:

A 20-kiloton detonation would leave debris tens of feet thick in downtown areas with buildings 10-stories or higher. Roughly half of the population in downtown areas would be killed, mainly from collapsing buildings. Most of those surviving the initial blast in downtown areas would be exposed to a fatal dose of radiation.
While the main effects from a 20-kiloton explosion would be from the blast and the radiation it releases, a 550-kiloton explosion would create additional and substantial casualties from burns. Such an explosion would superheat the blast zone, causing buildings to spontaneously combust. Mass fires would consume cities, reaching out nearly four miles (6.3 km) in all directions from the detonation site.

A 550 kiloton detonation in New York would result in a fallout plume extending the length of Long Island, resulting in more than 5 million deaths. A 550 kiloton detonation in Washington, D.C. would destroy hospitals in the District, but its fallout plume would also incapacitate hospitals in Baltimore, nearly 40 miles away.

The researchers note that in all four cities studied, hospitals are concentrated in the area most likely to be destroyed. Another weak link is the inability of the nations hospital system to treat the burn victims a 550-kiloton detonation would create. A 550-kiloton detonation in Atlanta, the least densely populated of the four cities studied, would result in nearly 300,000 serious burn victims.

The hospital system has about 1,500 burn beds in the whole country, and of these maybe 80 or 90 percent are full at any given time, Bell said. Theres no way of treating the burn victims from a nuclear attack with the existing medical system.

Posted by KBK 2007-03-26 12:20|| 2007-03-26 12:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Thanks for looking that up, KBK. Very interesting. So what are all the little green triangles?

Posted by Bobby 2007-03-26 12:49|| 2007-03-26 12:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Thanks for the map, KBK. Exit 11 on I-270 isn't even on the map, so I reckon I'd be safe in the immediate aftermath.

The morning commute would probably be, ah, a little dicier than normal, however.

Posted by eLarson 2007-03-26 13:06|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-03-26 13:06|| Front Page Top

#13 DC Not Prepared for Nuke Attack

Let me lighten the atmosphere :
Study Reveals Pittsburgh Unprepared For Full-Scale Zombie Attack

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-03-26 13:34|| 2007-03-26 13:34|| Front Page Top

#14 So, besides having Marine One shuffle the White House elite off to Buffalo, the place is pretty much toast, eh? This is emblematic of the massive failure of leadership taking place in America with respect to fighting international terrorism.

Yes, nuclear weapons are difficult to prepare for. Still, if our own politicians are so blithe in their ignorance as to not even put in place the Civilian Defenses required for responding to such a catastrophe in our nation's political core, then what does this say about their ability to counter or even comprehend the exigencies of fighting terrorism in general?

I have previously noted the intense ~~poetic justice~~ irony of our spineless leadership perishing in a terrorist nuclear attack upon Washington DC. As a patriot, I simply cannot bring myself to hope for such a horrid conflagration in our nation's capitol.

However, I will throw my hat in with Kalle's observation:

Do the jihadists realize that their destroying the current ruling dhimmis in DC would rejuvenate the American political class, and move America back to its revolutionary roots?

The prairie's grassroots spring back even greener after a wildfire. Islam would simply vanish into the haze of history's also-rans once order was re-established on our shores. This nation's Muslim population would consider itself lucky to be granted the luxury of internment camps.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-26 14:28|| 2007-03-26 14:28|| Front Page Top

#15 Basically the guys saying if your city is hit with a nuke your screwed. :P

Posted by djohn66 2007-03-26 14:28|| 2007-03-26 14:28|| Front Page Top

#16 Brilliant!!!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-03-26 15:19|| 2007-03-26 15:19|| Front Page Top

#17 Ya mean that "duck and cover" shit don't work? Damn...

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-26 15:31|| 2007-03-26 15:31|| Front Page Top

#18 A 100 KT Plus nuclear attack is 2nd only to global warming as a threat to Washington.

/that's my premise, where's my money?

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-03-26 18:03|| 2007-03-26 18:03|| Front Page Top

#19 A nuke attack on DC. Is this like shutting down Congress? Would anyone notice?

Posted by JohnQC 2007-03-26 18:40|| 2007-03-26 18:40|| Front Page Top

#20 Test drive this handy dandy little website Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer on a major US city of your choice.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-03-26 23:11|| 2007-03-26 23:11|| Front Page Top

#21 Oops! Link screwed up. Try This

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-03-26 23:13|| 2007-03-26 23:13|| Front Page Top

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