How far away do you need to be from DC to be safe from a nuclear attack?

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Anonymous wrote:You want to find a fallout shelter. There are more fallout shelters in DC than anywhere else in the US. If you aren't able to you want to go into a cave or a mine. FYI you also want to buy potassium iodine pills to protect your thyroid from cancer. Stay there for 14 days.

So instead of dying from thyroid cancer you can just die of another. No thanks. I suppose folks might enjoy the Greenbrier. Frankly a cyber attack is more frightening. People won't be able to get goods and services or information, then we'll have anarchy here and people turning on each other which is something Putin would love.

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Anonymous wrote:I was pretty naive until I saw the nuke scene in Terminator 2. Yea, I'd rather be in the epicenter than outside the blast where you burst into flames and hit with a blast wave. Didn't show the boring old death by radiation sickness though.

Watch the show Chernobyl and see what radiation sickness did to the firefighters who were exposed. Trust me, you want instant death instead of radiation poisoning.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd rather live at the epicenter at this point.

Same. Drop it in NoVa please.

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Silicon Valley could also be a target.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You want to find a fallout shelter. There are more fallout shelters in DC than anywhere else in the US. If you aren't able to you want to go into a cave or a mine. FYI you also want to buy potassium iodine pills to protect your thyroid from cancer. Stay there for 14 days.

Does DC have a list of fall out shelters?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know anything about nuclear missiles, so please keep it as dumbed-down as possible. I live in Shaw, and I realize that’s probably too close to the WH and Capitol. We have a car and can leave on short notice, and we’re thinking about making preps to do that now.

How far away from DC would be safe from a nuclear bomb? Are we taking like a few miles, like silver spring, or dozens of miles, like Gaithersburg or somewhere in Virginia. Would like to stay in MD if possible.

There's not going to be a nuclear war, idiot

+1. Yeah, a kook.

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Anonymous wrote:At minimum outside the beltway. Was it WaPo who did article circa 2015 with maps showing radiation cloud possibilities? I figured back then I would have 5 minutes ish to get into a basement or the center of a tall building. Looked like greatest possibility would be for radiation to blow east or northeast. Seems logical because weather normally moves in that direction. I think you're supposed to stay bunkered 2 days. Not certain on number of days

That was for a dirty bomb, not an actual nuke.

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Anonymous wrote:I hear North Dakota is lovely this time of year. Better start loading the car.

I know people in the DCUM bubble cannot conceive of the possibility that there is anything worth targeting in the Dakotas, but North Dakota is actually highly likely to get nuked. Because that's where our nukes are.

https://www.businessinsider.com/likely-us-nuclear-targets-2017-5

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Anonymous wrote:Um…I don’t think Chernobyl is like an active nuclear site.

I think Putin is referring to using cyberattacks and ransom attacks to cripple our infrastructure. But I’m just spitballing here.

+1. The Russians were thought to be behind that gasoline pipeline last year that caused a lot of gas stations to run out of gas. I think that and maybe something with the electric grid would be more likely. They've said the electric grid is vulnerable for years and most Americans don't know what to do without electricity, meaning no internet as well, for more than a few hours.

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This website allows you to put in an address and change out the different yield options: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

For those talking about duck-and-cover or "we'll all be burned no matter what" I'd ask you to consider what might happen if a terrorist got just one nuke. Or what might happen if North Korea decides to launch exactly one or two bombs - "duck and cover" can be effective for people far outside the blast radius who might have shattered glass or be in a building as it collapses.

I know this thread was started because of the situation in Ukraine, but it simply isn't accurate to state that any nuclear weapon going off would mean the end of civilization.

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Anonymous wrote:Dang, when the pandemic is over, this sh&t happens.
We live next to the nation's capital so we are a prime target.

Pandemic over? We had a record number of deaths yesterday. We just decided to ignore it.

Yes, it's over. Time to move onto the next thing to obsess over.

No, sorry, it’s not, no matter how much you slam you hands over your ears, stomp your feet and chant LA LA LA I CAN’T HEEEEEAR YOOOOOOU!!!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dang, when the pandemic is over, this sh&t happens.
We live next to the nation's capital so we are a prime target.

Pandemic over? We had a record number of deaths yesterday. We just decided to ignore it.

Yes, it's over. Time to move onto the next thing to obsess over.

Lol! Ok…

Aww, such a nice picture of you.

FYI, people stop with the whole “I know you are, but what am I?” thing in third grade, but good try.

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So should we leave the area?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You want to find a fallout shelter. There are more fallout shelters in DC than anywhere else in the US. If you aren't able to you want to go into a cave or a mine. FYI you also want to buy potassium iodine pills to protect your thyroid from cancer. Stay there for 14 days.

Potassium iodide. Science.

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Anonymous wrote:So should we leave the area?

+1