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

[Anonymous]

“Don’t Look Up”

[Anonymous]

Damn, this is a scary depressing thread.

[Anonymous]

I’m going to die in the fireball no matter what. Better than being in MD or VA and getting horrifying radiation poisoning and dying weeks or months later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

There are targets all around here outside of the beltway

What are the places to be away from? In MD specifically? No interest in trying to go to VA somewhere.

Andrews AFB and NSA headquarters would be some of the first targets.

[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.

Hah, I know.

My concern is if my child is at school and we are close enough to not having a chance to “survive” but not close enough to go instantly.

https://youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs — as a GenX child of parents of the Silent Generation, I love me some Tom Lehrer.

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Anonymous wrote:Did you just watch the press conference? I’m a little bugged out too.

What happened? Why does OP think nuclear war is imminent?

[Anonymous]

Engage Common Sense

THERE ARE NO NUCLEAR ANYTHINGS ON THIS SHIP CALLED EARTH
Never was, never will be.
If there were don't you think by now we'd all be dead ?
Nukes are used to make you live in fear.
Don't feed them your fear. It's mind control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Engage Common Sense

THERE ARE NO NUCLEAR ANYTHINGS ON THIS SHIP CALLED EARTH
Never was, never will be.
If there were don't you think by now we'd all be dead ?
Nukes are used to make you live in fear.
Don't feed them your fear. It's mind control.

Sooo...Hiroshima and Nagasaki...that was just like a bad day or two?

[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.

Hah, I know.

My concern is if my child is at school and we are close enough to not having a chance to “survive” but not close enough to go instantly.

https://youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs — as a GenX child of parents of the Silent Generation, I love me some Tom Lehrer.

Hey! Fellow Gen Xer here too. We lived near Norfolk so that's how my parents consoled me as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Engage Common Sense

THERE ARE NO NUCLEAR ANYTHINGS ON THIS SHIP CALLED EARTH
Never was, never will be.
If there were don't you think by now we'd all be dead ?
Nukes are used to make you live in fear.
Don't feed them your fear. It's mind control.

Sooo...Hiroshima and Nagasaki...that was just like a bad day or two?

Nope. They were a fake, just like the moon landing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you just watch the press conference? I’m a little bugged out too.

What happened? Why does OP think nuclear war is imminent?

I'd like to know too. I didn't want to watch the press conference, but apparently it alarmed a lot of people.

[Anonymous]

I live 2 miles from the Pentagon. I will be gone in the initial blast. Probably much better than suffering with the deadly radiation effects and destruction. I won’t even know what hit me.

[Anonymous]

NP: All jokes and insults aside. Is this something we should really be prepping for? Someone educate me please….

Anyone leaving the city today, this week?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Hah, I know.

My concern is if my child is at school and we are close enough to not having a chance to “survive” but not close enough to go instantly.

https://youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs — as a GenX child of parents of the Silent Generation, I love me some Tom Lehrer.

Hey! Fellow Gen Xer here too. We lived near Norfolk so that's how my parents consoled me as well.

Yep — although we were more in a town like the one in Red Dawn, good times. Mine assured me that since the end result would be Mutually Assured Destruction, no one sane would go there.

[/i] Sane [i] being the operative word there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Engage Common Sense

THERE ARE NO NUCLEAR ANYTHINGS ON THIS SHIP CALLED EARTH
Never was, never will be.
If there were don't you think by now we'd all be dead ?
Nukes are used to make you live in fear.
Don't feed them your fear. It's mind control.

Um. I’ve seen them as have thousands of others. With my own eyeholes. You are clearly not well.