http://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2024/03/24/nyp-what-would-happen-to-washington-dc-if-it-got-nuked-n2394320
The left sure seems to be obsessed with nuclear weapons and nuclear war these days. Two days ago, we wrote about a new Gen Z 'nuclear disarmament consultant' on TikTok with pipe dreams of a nuke-free world. Then yesterday, The New York Post asked everyone to imagine what would happen to Washington, DC, if it got hit with a nuclear bomb.
New York Post (@nypost) ~ What would happen to Washington, DC if attacked by a nuclear bomb?
http://trib.al/nK5txXp
Umm, we're not really nuclear physicists here, but we're pretty sure the city would be destroyed. Next question?
Yep ... it would be incinerated. So, this is the wrong question. The question should be - "What would happen to the rest of America if D.C. was hit by a nuclear bomb?"
Of course, the full article -- which is an excerpt from author Annie Jacobson's new book, 'Nuclear War: A Scenario' -- is dedicated to depicting exactly what happens when a population center is hit with a nuclear weapon, second by gruesome second. The article is extremely long, so we won't bore you with all of it (since everyone Gen X or older already knows all this), but here is a sampling:
Hell on Earth. Washington, DC, Possibly Sometime in the Near Future
A 1-megaton thermonuclear weapon detonation begins with a flash of light and heat so tremendous it is impossible for the human mind to comprehend. One hundred and eighty million degrees Fahrenheit is four or five times hotter than the temperature at the center of the sun.
In the first fraction of a millisecond after the bomb strikes the Pentagon, there is light. Soft X-ray light with a very short wavelength. The light superheats the surrounding air to millions of degrees, creating a massive fire-ball that expands at millions of miles per hour. Within seconds, this fireball increases to a diameter of a little more than a mile, its light and heat so intense that concrete surfaces explode, metal objects melt or evaporate, stone shatters, humans instantaneously convert into combusting carbon. The five-story, five-sided structure and everything inside its 6.5 million square feet of office space explodes into superheated dust; all 27,000 Pentagon employees perishing instantly.
Jacobson goes on like this for another FIFTEEN paragraphs. We can't imagine how miserable anyone must be who reads her whole book.
But again, everyone KNOWS this. At least everyone who lived through the 80s knows this. It was hammered into our brains every day.
The "80s"???!!! No, more like the 50s and the 60s, but this Twitchy author isn't old enough to remember nuclear drills at school.
So, what is the point of all of this ghoulish description of the gory details? Partially, it might be another quixotic fantasy of a nuclear-free world, but mostly we think the point is simply fearmongering. Something that is the media's stock in trade.
Unfortunately for the Post and Jacobson, Twitter does not easily get scared into submission anymore. (The left can blame all their COVID lies for helping that along.) Accordingly, people responded with hilarious mocking and scorn.
E=MC HAMMERTIME (@scs_real) ~ It would clean it up quite a bit.
Yeah, D.C. wouldn't be as much of a sh!thole as it is, now.
ULTRA Gay Biker DAD (@AnotherHomoCon) ~ The US would skyrocket to being within the top 10 happiest countries in the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW-0kbIcf1E
It might even stop Congress from passing more bloated $1.2 trillion omnibus bills. But we're not 100 percent sure of that. It is said that cockroaches could survive a nuclear blast.
Silence and Frost with a side of Bloodbath (@secjr112) ~ Corruption in the states would plummet.
White suburban Rage Dennis (@Buzzsaws1990) ~
Tim Decentralize and nullify (@Tim_The_Sandman) ~ What would happen: a massive increase in individual liberty and a massive reduction in taxes.
Ben McMillan (@benmccomposer) ~ Remember that scene at the end of Return of the Jedi when the whole galaxy is celebrating the fall of the Empire?
9mmSMG (@9mm_smg) ~ If an ICBM made its way into DC, locals would try and rob it, then shoot it.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (@WingDynasty) ~ If I answer honestly, do I get put on a list?
Hate to break it to you, but you're already on it. Don't worry, so are we. We've got cookies and membership jackets.
Yeah, we're all on a list deep in the bowels of the Banana Republic's In-Justice Department.
The Jokeocracy Show (qu/acc) (@the_jokeocracy) ~ What terrifies me is, if someone were to detonate a nuclear device in Washington DC, because imagine the massive hangover we would have the next day after that wild party.
Julius (@TodaywithJulius) ~ Everyone vaccinated will be fine.
Thank goodness for Fauci, riiiiiiiight?!
Goth_Kitty (@GothKitty11) ~ {Replying to @nypost} Stop showing things just to scare people. Your fear mongering and you know it.
At least Twitter showed that we're immune from the fearmongering.
And also that some of us have a SUPER dark sense of humor.
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