If the United States was attacked by a direct nuclear confrontation

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Colt45

Originally posted by: TheEvil1


Heses some

A good example. but its a 1 MT bomb. we have ones that are 50x more powerfull then that. do teh math :Q

and this is just plain scary

In fact, the 50-MT bomb tested on 30 October 1961 was never a
weapon. This was a one-of-a-kind device, whose design allowed it
to achieve a yield of up to 100 megatons when fully loaded with
nuclear fuel. Thus, the test of the 50-MT bomb was in effect the
test of the design for a 100-MT weapon. If a blast of such horrific
magnitude had been conducted, it would have generated a gigantic,
fiery tornado, engulfing an area larger than Vladimirskaya Oblast in
Russia or the state of Maryland in the USA.

taken from here

the tsar bomba is pretty useless though, needs to be dropped from a plane.
ICBMs like the R36-M can carry a 20-25Mt warhead. Boom!

yea i know that. just an example. and a 25MT bomb is bad enough

 

[MinorityReport]

Where's Patric Henry when we need him.

He is hiding in Iraq

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Heses some

A good example. but its a 1 MT bomb. we have ones that are 50x more powerfull then that. do teh math :Q

and this is just plain scary

In fact, the 50-MT bomb tested on 30 October 1961 was never a
weapon.

taken from here

here's another nice article..



Nuclear Terror Attack On New York Would Kill More Than 250,000: Study

The scenario is based on a bomb capable of yielding an equivalent TNT blast of 12.5 kilotonnes, smuggled into the port of New York aboard a shipping container and detonated at ground level.

"The blast and thermal effects of such an explosion would kill 52,000 people immediately, and direct radiation would cause 44,000 cases of radiation sickness, of which 10,000 would be fatal," the authors say.

"Radiation from fallout would kill another 200,000 people and cause several hundred thousand additional cases of radiation sickness."

The authorities' ability to aid survivors "would be very limited," they warn.

"About 1,000 hospital beds would be destroyed by the blast and 8,700 more would be in areas with radiation exposures high enough to cause radiation sickness. The remaining local medical facilities would quickly be overwhelmed, and even with advance preparation outside help would be delayed."

 

[guyver01]

And Yet Another Article..

Consequences of a Nuclear Attack on NYC

Specific targets: Columbia University, the George Washington Bridge, Kennedy Airport, LaGuardia Airport, the Merchant Marine Academy, Newark Airport, the Queensboro Bridge, and Wall Street

 

[Red Dawn]

Not if but when and the problem is it probably won't be an attack from anothere country but from terrorists without a centralized Government so there is now way to retaliate in a manner to discourage them from doing it in the first place.

 

[spaceman]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Not if but when and the problem is it probably won't be an attack from anothere country but from terrorists without a centralized Government so there is now way to retaliate in a manner to discourage them from doing it in the first place.

im fairly certain some country would bear the brunt of the US reprisal

 

[Iron Woode]

Wasn't there a TV movie back in the mid 80's about terrorists detonating a nuclear weapon in some harbor? It was pretty cool.

Sheer destructive force of a 4 kilo-ton device that was dropped on Japan, would do tremdous damage in the US. It would level a lot of realestate.

Up the ante to a Mega-ton and you have massive destruction and major loss of life. 250,000 est? Give me a break more like 2 million, not including the lingering radiation poisoning.

 

[FlashG]

What I am alluding to is the FEAR of a nuclear attack seems to be driving us toward considering the use of excessive counter measures. Measures that might lead to an extreme deterioration in our quality of living.

I feel we are hell bent on agreeing to do atrocious things (read go to war) for the sake of making us feel like everything is OK when in fact we are loosing the very things that we hold dear. It just seems like people are extremely casual in their attitude toward conflict both global and local.

I have been thinking about our willingness to do terrible things to people because they do terrible things to us. Isn?t constant reprisal self destructive in the end? Isn?t there another way? I don?t have any answers just a large concern that we are headed in a wrong direction.

 

[Electrode]

Personally, I don't think rights would matter much to the mutants that will crawl over the radioactive debris of once great cities, seeking to eat the flesh of those who remain human.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Electrode
Personally, I don't think rights would matter much to the mutants that will crawl over the radioactive debris of once great cities, seeking to eat the flesh of those who remain human.

CHUDS 😛

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Electrode
Personally, I don't think rights would matter much to the mutants that will crawl over the radioactive debris of once great cities, seeking to eat the flesh of those who remain human.

That's assuming that Raider Fans would surive it in the first place!

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: Electrode
Personally, I don't think rights would matter much to the mutants that will crawl over the radioactive debris of once great cities, seeking to eat the flesh of those who remain human.

CHUDS 😛

:Q

 

[Vic]

There would be martial law overnight.

 

[coolVariable]

Cheer up. Once the US attacks Iraq, terrorists will surely get their hands on a nuclear weapon and detonate it in a big city. But hey, we are going to war in the name of national security ...