Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Nuke Your Nearest City

Will you be able to crawl from the smoldering ruins? [More]
Posted by David Codrea at 3/04/2009 12:29:00 PM

4 comments:

jon said...

"If you have a bomb, you are a terrorist, and I hate you."

that's a joke, right?

3/04/2009 2:03 PM
Anonymous said...

It's going to happen. However, it won't be a delivery by missile or aircraft. Too easy to trace back to origin, and thus retaliation. It most likely will be a suitcase nuke allowing plausible though improbable deniability.

When it happens, I predict that in whatever nation it takes place, domestic curbs on liberty and innocent citizens will be immediate and draconian. The attacking body, whether a religion, nation, combination, or just terror for hire will be dealt with as an afterthought, and only insofar as it serves for justification of enslavement of the domestic citizenry.

There is no nation on earth at the moment that does not desire the total subjugation of its people. Including ours.

While not admitted, such an attack will be welcomed by the government of whichever nation draws the short straw, assuming the seat of government itself and its officials are not vaporized.

3/04/2009 5:57 PM
Anonymous said...

"While not admitted, such an attack will be welcomed by the government of whichever nation draws the short straw, assuming the seat of government itself and its officials are not vaporized."

That would tend to dampen their enthusiasm. The possibility of such is all that really concerns them now. Assured of their own survival and ascendancy, they would be actively, though secretly, campaigning for just such a scenario.

And no, I am not nuts. It just sounds like I am because I am capable of recognizing such monstrous ambitions in those who be our complete masters.

3/04/2009 6:02 PM
Anonymous said...

Yeah, well — I nuked Fayetteville 4 different ways. The nuke NEEDS to be limited to no more than 1.4 MT else I'll get fried. However, got two good ridgelines between me and ground zero (being DT) so blast damage is entirely unlikely and thermal effects should be mitigated considerably. However, prevailing winds are going to be a problem as fallout will be nigh immediate. A lot of dangerous debris will be coming out of the sky for several hours afterward, and I have no real shelter from that.

However, that is assuming a surface blast, not aerial. Aerial blast of 500ft altitude would be a whole 'nother story — and very BAD. I would need a true underground shelter with heavily filtered ventilation to survive that — even at 1.4 MT.

Just as an aside, a subsurface blast on the fault line that traverses Fayetteville and ultimately passes under Beaver Dam, could be tried. If it triggered the fault to shift, the effect would be magnified considerably, possibly rupturing the dam and flooding all areas downstream into Table Rock Lake, which would cause the water level to top Table Rock Dam — now the catastrophe is magnified well beyond even an aerial blast. Hard to say what magnitude of quake it might produce. Fayetteville would still be destroyed, but not as dramatic, unless the quake is triggered.

Hmmm, a disaster planner's nightmare.

3/05/2009 12:21 AM

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