What would happen if a nuclear bomb hit Washington D.C.?

[mikebratcher69]

What would happen if a nuclear bomb hit Washington D.C.? The terrifying report that predicts damage a terror attack would wreak on the nation's capital

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1pN3wgLZB
It is perhaps unsurprising that a nuclear bomb set off in the nation's capital would cause devastating and widespread damage.

Yet the simple conclusion did not put the government off, and they commissioned a report to assess the impact of a potential terror attack on Washington, D.C.

The results are far from comforting: the half-mile radius around the bomb would have a low chance of survival and most buildings - including that of the federal government - would be destroyed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...n-D-C.html

[NorthernRaider]

Well if one hit London I would have a street party.

[Timelord]

Just think of the profits to be made - from rebuilding & all that scrap metal... Don't forget the insurance claims too. I can see this as another branch on the tree of the current trend to asset strip nations and using the taxpayers to fund it as a double whammy. Bit of a hedge fund against civilization infastructure. Big bucks happy..

[Scythe13]

(17 March 2012, 18:54)Timelord Wrote: Just think of the profits to be made - from rebuilding & all that scrap metal... Don't forget the insurance claims too. I can see this as another branch on the tree of the current trend to asset strip nations and using the taxpayers to fund it as a double whammy. Bit of a hedge fund against civilization infastructure. Big bucks happy..

I think owning a builders-yard-merchants-buisiness of any kind, would make you a king after such a thing.

If you worked in the insurance industry....you'd be out of a job. There were too many companies refusing to pay out after Katrina (remember how it all got into the news), unless you worked for some bright spark that used a smaller disaster as a super marketing ploy (that town that had uber flooding a couple of years ago. I think Branson came in and said anyone that takes one of his policies "Today" will be covered for the water damage....clever man).

Not sure what I would do if one hit Bristol. Probably vapourise and become dust haha. If one hit Londonistan.....I'd get ready for a fallout of people.

If one hit Washington DC....I'd get ready to be caught up in WW£

[Skean Dhude]

(17 March 2012, 21:08)Scythe13 Wrote: I think owning a builders-yard-merchants-buisiness of any kind, would make you a king after such a thing.

Replace king with target and that is about it. Those places are on my list. I'm sure they are on others.