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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Russia uses nuke bombs on DC everyone in DC and most of the fashionable suburbs close to DC like Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Arlington, Alexandria, McLean, Potomac, Great Falls, Silver Spring, and Fairfax are all going to die. You'll either die instantly in the fireball, or your house will be smashed to pieces by the blast and then catch fire with you inside it, or you will die slowly of radiation poisoning amid the rubble of everything. If your kids are in school when it happens, they will die there and you will die alone without ever seeing them again. If it happens in the middle of the night and you live long enough you will watch them die in your arms after days or weeks of suffering before you die yourself. You will die, and your children will die, and they only thing that can possibly prevent that is getting away from DC now before it happens.

Pretty much this.

No point in sugarcoating things.

[Anonymous]

This is terrifying!

[Anonymous]

Genuinely confused - while I resize things could get out of hand, the US is not engaging in Ukraine specifically to try to tamp down the risk of nuclear war I thought. Why would Russia nuke us if we are not shelling them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But seriously, where would be safe? Just hypothetically? Spearman Texas? Every time someone says a place, people counter by saying, no, that’s actually a strategic area that would be nuked. So where would be safest?

How are you getting to Spearman, TX in time to avoid a nuclear attack?

Seriously -- we'll have something like 4 minutes warning if Russia launches nukes. You won't even have enough time to get drunk.

Kind of jealous of those with guns. I’d shoot myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Genuinely confused - while I resize things could get out of hand, the US is not engaging in Ukraine specifically to try to tamp down the risk of nuclear war I thought. Why would Russia nuke us if we are not shelling them?

They will nuke us because we are meddling in their business with sanctions and by verbally condemning/harassing them etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Genuinely confused - while I resize things could get out of hand, the US is not engaging in Ukraine specifically to try to tamp down the risk of nuclear war I thought. Why would Russia nuke us if we are not shelling them?

I think much more likely they will launch cyber attacks on US power grid and other infrastructure.

However, Putin has placed nuclear power base on high alert. I believe one of the main reasons US is not sending troops in to help Ukraine is to avoid being target of nuclear ☢️ attack. Germany is probably now at risk. I would imagine they would target Western Europe before the U.S.

Russia has been launching online misinformation wars for years in U.S. and Western countries to stoke division and instability - and now we know why.

[Anonymous]

I read someplace that the southern hemphishere may be less effected by nuclear winter. But even a localized nuclear bomb could kill a significant percentage of the population through radiation poisoning and famine. The consequences are not comprehensible. This is why anyone who would even mention the use of nuclear weapons is insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Russia uses nuke bombs on DC everyone in DC and most of the fashionable suburbs close to DC like Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Arlington, Alexandria, McLean, Potomac, Great Falls, Silver Spring, and Fairfax are all going to die. You'll either die instantly in the fireball, or your house will be smashed to pieces by the blast and then catch fire with you inside it, or you will die slowly of radiation poisoning amid the rubble of everything. If your kids are in school when it happens, they will die there and you will die alone without ever seeing them again. If it happens in the middle of the night and you live long enough you will watch them die in your arms after days or weeks of suffering before you die yourself. You will die, and your children will die, and they only thing that can possibly prevent that is getting away from DC now before it happens.

Wow, are you leaving or already left?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I feel your pain.

We closed on our house near the Capitol on Sept. 10, 2001.

I panicked a little the next day.

We bought a seaside home as a bolthole right after 9/11. I’m not scared now, though. Just incredibly impressed by Zelensky and angry at dumbass Trump for holding up their $400M in aid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All my fellow fatalistic GenXers! We know it's best to be vaporized. I grew up outside of Richmond. My dad "comforted" me about the threat of Nuclear War with these words: don't worry we live between DC and Norfolk. We will die before we know what's happening.

Yep, maybe there will be a couple minutes of fear, but, it will be over swiftly. I definitely want to go in the first blast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All my fellow fatalistic GenXers! We know it's best to be vaporized. I grew up outside of Richmond. My dad "comforted" me about the threat of Nuclear War with these words: don't worry we live between DC and Norfolk. We will die before we know what's happening.

Yep, maybe there will be a couple minutes of fear, but, it will be over swiftly. I definitely want to go in the first blast.

It is insane that I pray it doesn’t happened, but if it does that I go in the first blast with my family by my side. I cannot not imagine anything else, too much suffering.

[Anonymous]

I have lost all faith in politics and humanity to avert such a disaster.

[Anonymous]

https://wtop.com/europe/2022/02/russia-hits-ukraine-fuel-supplies-airfields-in-new-attacks/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Genuinely confused - while I resize things could get out of hand, the US is not engaging in Ukraine specifically to try to tamp down the risk of nuclear war I thought. Why would Russia nuke us if we are not shelling them?

They will nuke us because we are meddling in their business with sanctions and by verbally condemning/harassing them etc.

Premeditated and unprovoked attack on peaceful democratic country of 44 million people just because you want their land and want to control their government is not business - it is an act of premeditated and unjustified war.

Russia has been seeking to destabilize Western democracies for many years through online misinformation wars that stoke division through false bogeymen, cyber attacks on essential services, spreading lies about NATO as a defense alliance, and creating a refugee crisis in Europe by extensive bombing of Syria.

Further Putin spreads self defense lies to justify his aggressions which he likes to unleash during the Olympic Games (he invaded Georgia during the Olympics as well). He represents a great threat to all Western democracies.

If they nuke us, it is not because we meddled in their business but because their leader is criminally insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Genuinely confused - while I resize things could get out of hand, the US is not engaging in Ukraine specifically to try to tamp down the risk of nuclear war I thought. Why would Russia nuke us if we are not shelling them?

They will nuke us because we are meddling in their business with sanctions and by verbally condemning/harassing them etc.

Premeditated and unprovoked attack on peaceful democratic country of 44 million people just because you want their land and want to control their government is not business - it is an act of premeditated and unjustified war.

Russia has been seeking to destabilize Western democracies for many years through online misinformation wars that stoke division through false bogeymen, cyber attacks on essential services, spreading lies about NATO as a defense alliance, and creating a refugee crisis in Europe by extensive bombing of Syria.

Further Putin spreads self defense lies to justify his aggressions which he likes to unleash during the Olympic Games (he invaded Georgia during the Olympics as well). He represents a great threat to all Western democracies.

If they nuke us, it is not because we meddled in their business but because their leader is criminally insane.

PP: yes, he has lost his mind - but we are def in their business whether that’s good or bad is up to public opinion since everyone on here is an expert on this subject matter, apparently - but we know he’s unpredictable and that’s what worries some of us on this thread