What would happen if Al Qaeda detonated a 5 megaton nuke in Los Angeles?

The pic where he's carrying Angeleyes is very nice too.

that scenario would be a total mindfuck!

HAHAHA Jack!

When it is happen, we see.

mrs. fiction would blame it on "christians"

Thanks Dak

You are a funny guy. While homosexuality is definitely not my thing I highly doubt you can find a thread anywhere that said I had something against homosexuals as people.

BTW, as a man, doesn't that automatically make me a minority?

it would be a drag to see anyone get nuked....

you think maybe Joe Citizen has me confused with someone else?

I think Joe's got a crush on you and wants to find out if you're 'into it'

pretty women have a tendency to make me look better


Well Joe, now that the secret is out (you can see I am as black as the Ace of Spades), I don't have anything against homosexuals . . . but I do have a great dislike for dumbasses.

So, if you are gay, and think I don't like you because you are gay, that's not it.

World War III would start as the US population would want to get revenge against Islam.
It would be a religious war.
Riots in Europe as Muslims there would rise up and want to take it over.
All Arab countries attack Israel.
Israel nukes all Arab countries.
Major deportation and extermination of Muslims in Europe (They are good at it, ie: Jews, Yougaslavia, Milosevic,...)
USA taken over by Christian fundamentalists.
Porn is forbidden.
Everybody who survives and do not want to live under Pat Robertson as President run to South America and Oceania.
Major disruption of the global economic system.
China implodes as its #1 trading partner is not buying anymore.
Africa goes even further down the drain.

No, that is not a pretty picture.

By the way; just about the same thing would happen if al qaeda attacked the Vatican and killed the Pope and a few thousands Christians.

You two should get together for a drink and see what happens.

Yeah, I had a tough time sleeping last night . . . tossing and turning . . . .with that uncomfortable feeling myself.

Not that I wasn't flattered . . . it just isn't my thing, and I wasn't sure how to tell him.

in 2010 ther will be small bombs rolling through nearly every majo city in the us

I don't drink that much

the mojo cities? Like New Orleans and Nashville?

I am beginning to think it would not be that much of a drag to see Joe Citizen get nuked

You'd have a lot of folks looking like what we did to the people of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The aftermath of being nuked is not a pretty picture.

Everybody loves Aussies. Not likely they'll be nuked anytime soon.


That's why joe suxprick moved there, to hide amongst the likeables.

oh, I did not mean to nuke Aus, just him

just for reference, "little boy" dropped on hiroshima was roughly 13 kilotons.

a 5 megaton bomb is roughly the destructive force of 5000000 tons of TNT, or 385 hiroshima bombs (little boy).

i am curious how that would be carried in a backpack.

Hmm, you mean like a 'personal nuke' sort of gadget? Yeah, YEAH I could see that. It would be like a .00000005 megaton little peewee warhead. You could hide it in the tip of a pen and slide it into his poindexter pocket protector.




Maybe you should have that drink with him after all.

The size to weight to destructive power in nukes has come a long way since then.

was thinking more about sliding it up his ass instead

i realize that, but i still doubt something that size would fit in a backpack. perhaps a 13 kiloton would.

i also realize that a terrorist organization would not install guidance controls, or anything like that either. but i still have my doubts.

2 words:

martial law

OMG, you ARE gay .... lol

It would open up lots of opportunities in adult .

Well, since 50% of Americanas are obese, combined with the large Latino presence in Cali. I would guess that everyone downwind would have to deal with the smell of a really greasy Mexican resturant for quite a while to come...

And yes, that is neither politically correct, nor ethnically sensitive, but who gives a fuck?

there would be a lot less webmasters to compete aginst..

http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/020923.htm



Suitcase nukes are less than a kiloton


The 400 kiloton warheads on the Pershing missiles the US army used to let me play with were about 7 feet long and weighed a few hundred pounds, there was no guidence controls in the warhead, that is a seperate part of the missile system.

I'm about 100 miles north of LA, I think i'd survive - no doubt I'd get a good tan.

I chopped down a tree once . . . that doesn't make me a lumberjack

I say do it in Israel.

Am I gay? Well, you'll have to ask my girl.

Moved there? I was born here.

How ya like dem apples VDSmith!

well, truth be told . . . .

Arabs wouldn't be allowed into the US. The ones that are already there will get attacked by the rest of the americans and US army will start to draft people.

its not going to happen, so "what if" doesnt matter

I would be fried.

id go steal my own 5 megaton nuke and go bomb fucking iraq and all those motherfuckers, then id go step on the barely alive heads and grind my heel into their melted faces.

AMEN, my brotha!!!!

The Effects of Nuclear War
http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/7906/

1-KT TERRORIST WEAPON AT GROUND LEVEL

A terrorist group using stolen or diverted fission material, having general technical competence but lacking direct weapon design experience, could probably build a weapon up to several kilotons. This weapon would be large and heavy, certainly not the often-discussed ?suitcase bomb, ? so is likely to be transported in a van or small truck, with threatened detonation either in the street or the parking garage of a building.

Because of the locations and yield of this weapon, its effects will be much less devasting than those of high-yield, strategic weapons. The range and magnitude of all the nuclear effects will be greatly reduced by the low yields; in addition, the relative range of lethal effects will be changed. At high yields, blast and thermal burn reach out to greater distances than does the initial nuclear radiation. At 1 kt the reverse is true; for example, 5-psi overpressure occurs at 1,450 feet [442 m], while 600 reins of
initial radiation reaches out to 2,650 feet [808 m], For the 1-Mt surface burst, 5 psi occurred at 2.7 miles and 600 reins at 1.7 miles.

In addition to these changes in range, the highly built-up urban structure in which the weapon is placed wilI significantly modify the resulting nuclear environment. This occurs when the lethal range of effects shrink to such an extent that they are comparable to the size of urban structures. It is indeed reasonable to expect that the blast effects of a smalI weapon (5 psi at a range of only 1,450 feet) will be severely infIuenced by nearby structures having comparable dimensions. Preliminary calculations have confirmed this. For example, suppose a device is detonated in a van parked alongside a 1,000-foot high building in the middle of the block of an urban complex of rather closely spaced streets in one direction and more broadly spaced avenues in the other direction. Whereas the 2.5-psi ring would have a radius of 2,100 feet [640 m] detonated on a smooth surface, it is found that this blast wave extends to 2,800 feet [850 m] directly down the street, but to only 1,500 feet [460 m] in a random direction angling through the built-up blocks. These calculations have been made by many approximating factors which, if more accurately represented, would probably lead to
an even greater reduction in range.

Other weapons effects will be similarly modified from those predicted on the basis of a relatively open target area. I n the case of initial nuclear radiation, a lethal 600 rem would be expected to extend to 2,650 feet [808 m] from 1 kt. Because of the great absorption of this radiation as it passes through the multiple walls of the several buildings in a block, it is expected that 600 reins will reach out no further than 800 feet [245 m], thus covering an area onIy one-tenth as great. The thermal radiation will affect only those directly exposed up and down the street, while the majority of people will be protected by buildings.

For the same reason directly initiated fires will be insignificant, but the problem of secondary fires starting from building damage wilI remain. The local fallout pattern also will be highly distorted by the presence of the buildings. The fireball, confined between the buildings, will be blown up to a higher altitude than otherwise expected, leading to reduced local fallout but causing broadly distributed long-term fallout.

In summary, the ranges of nuclear effects from a low-yield explosion in the confined space of an urban environment will differ significantly from large yield effects, but in ways that are very difficult to estimate. Thus the numbers of people and areas of buildings affected are very uncertain. However, it appears that, with the exception of streets directly exposed to the weapon, lethal ranges to people will be smaller than anticipated and dominated by the blast-induced collapse of nearby buiIdings.

haha good call. although there are a couple of good shows out of the US.

a bunch of fake ass people made of 90% silicone in LA would die, that's about it, considering NY is our financial capital we don't stand to lose much more then some crazies and some actors

That's a big bang