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This is very scary.......Do you think it will ever happen in the NEAR Future?

Try this out?

I live in Dayton,Ohio and I did the one for cinncinati would I be affected?

http://www.fas.org/main/content.jsp?formAction=297&contentId=367

no every1 here is american.

This is very scary.......Do you think it will ever happen in the NEAR Future?
You'll all hate me for this, but I hope so. We haven't had a major disaster in a while, and I'm getting bored. :p

(as long as nobody picks on Minnesota....)
Try this out?

I live in Dayton,Ohio and I did the one for cinncinati would I be affected?

http://www.fas.org/main/content.jsp?formAction=297&contentId=367
Needs more cities to choose from, IMO.

You'll all hate me for this, but I hope so. We haven't had a major disaster in a while, and I'm getting bored. :p

(as long as nobody picks on Minnesota....)

Needs more cities to choose from, IMO.

You want millions to die for your well being?:upyours:

They have Grand Rapids, Mobile, and Reno... but not New York? :confused:

You want millions to die for your well being?:upyours:

They should leave first. :p

You want millions to die for your well being?:upyours:
Sorry :( Just the way I am :(
Nuke hollywood first, please.

You want millions to die for your well being?:upyours:

did you have to throw that smiley in?

Sorry :( Just the way I am :(
Nuke hollywood first, please.

Your well-being comes at a stiff price. I'd sooner see you unwell and the world intact, if it's all the same.

I voted '"No", however, I'm assuming that if this were to occur, the chosen method of delivery would be an automobile! My question is, what size bomb would a terrorist most likely use? Measure in kilotons (KT) or megatons (MT).

I'm assuming that if this were to occur, the chosen method of delivery would be an automobile! My question is, what size bomb would a terrorist most likely use? Measure in kilotons (KT) or megatons (MT).

It would probably be between 3-20 kilotons, as much bigger than that, and the bomb gets really big.

You'll all hate me for this, but I hope so. We haven't had a major disaster in a while, and I'm getting bored. :p

(as long as nobody picks on Minnesota....)

We in Wisconsin and Minnesota have it good don't we?

It's way too cold up here for anyone to want to bother with us. :p

Well, Plut, I don't exactly hate you. I do wonder about you, and I'm gonna assume that you're joking.

I really don't think that this'll happen too soon. I mean, in the sixty+ years that nukes have been around, no non-governmental organization or entity has every gotten their hands on one outside of James Bond movies, and I don't expect that to change radically.

Nuclear weapons are so... seventies. Nanoplagues are where it's at! :)

Nuclear weapons are so... seventies. Nanoplagues are where it's at! :)

what, no geneticly engineered super viruses, man am i behind the times....

what, no geneticly engineered super viruses, man am i behind the times....

Just a little. Genetically engineered super viruses were the nineties. *nod*

Just a little. Genetically engineered super viruses were the nineties. *nod*

My money is on sticks and stones in the twenties.:)

I can't get the application to run, so could someone do the affect on Denver and the surrounding region and let me in on the specifics?

Strange, they have Grand Rapids but not Detroit. Either way, I'm not in the blast zone if either one were bombed.

Well that's a pretty useless and inaccurate calculator so I'd say no :headbang:

No. No one is so crazy to explode a nuke in a US city. Not even Bin Laden. Even he knows perfectly that this would lead to a major pogrom against muslim people everywhere.

Anyway, the strategical defense initiative (the Star-Wars Reagan project and its spinoffs) sucks. If I wanted to blast a nuke in the US, I wouldn't deliver it in such an unsubtle way as a ballistic missile. I would use those enormous unwatched areas like the pacific coast (Oregon, for example) to smuggle the nuke in, as if it was a "normal" smuggling operation.

Controlling the borders should be priority for the US government. Those borders are almost totally open. And it is well-known by everyone. The only thing that keeps potential nuclear terrorists from performing the act is that they know that they will trigger an out-of-scale retaliation against every hypotetical perpetrator, and it wouldn't matter who'd done it. If a nuke exploded - let's say - in Los Angeles, I don't think that the US government would wait a secret service inquest to know exactly who'd done it. They would just shoot at every possible source of the attack - Iran, North Korea, Syria, Sudan, Indonesia, Venezuela. And I don't think that the EU or Russia would be opposing that... well, maybe as long as the retaliation isn't nuclear.

A 20KT nuke detonated in the heart of downtown Chicago would destroy almost all of the skyscrapers in the city. Billions in damage, tens of thousands killed.

This is very scary.......Do you think it will ever happen in the NEAR Future?

Try this out?

I live in Dayton,Ohio and I did the one for cinncinati would I be affected?

http://www.fas.org/main/content.jsp?formAction=297&contentId=367

If you're really interested, find yourself a copy of this very good (but somewhat dated) book:

http://i.biblio.com/b/835m/32943835-0-m.jpg

Should be a couple of bucks on Amazon or at a used bookstore. It's somewhat alarmist, but it does go into decent detail on what can one actually expect from various yield weapons, what life would be like near a blast site, etc.

NB: This book was written before Chernobyl, so we have a better view now of radiation, what with 20 years of a real-world test lab.

no every1 here is american.

So what? Not every Pole lives in Poland.

This calculator sucks, I wanted to see Charlotte, NC!

Anyways I doubt anyone would do this, because if they did, then well, it's the end of the world.