Let's punch this puppy into a website. One nuclear armed madman plus large city... Not including fallout. How many millions dead?
@ai6yr So the only flaw is that they would most likely use a Minuteman III which would have a nominal yield of 300KT
@cvvhrn @ai6yr
Why would he only use one?

@Dougfir @ai6yr

I would assume because of the fallout literal and political would be more than the cult GQP can bear

If you start hitting places on the gulf side you may frag our "allies" with fallout etc

@cvvhrn @Dougfir It's bad to nuke the people who give you planes
@ai6yr @cvvhrn @Dougfir It's bad to nuke people.
@driusan @ai6yr @cvvhrn
And yet here we are.
@Dougfir @driusan @cvvhrn Well, I'd argue it's bad to nuke ANYTHING (plants, animals, planets, people, fungi, etc.)
@ai6yr @Dougfir @cvvhrn maybe squirrels or mosquittos.
@driusan @cvvhrn @Dougfir Ah, but even a tactical nuke at the squirrel hideout on the hill next to my house will make Los Angeles uninhabitable for a generations. (well, at least for those who don't want extra limbs)
@ai6yr @driusan @cvvhrn
Fun little story from back in the day.
We would have air raid drills in junior high in the 60s. One fine day, our teacher said don't bother climbing under the chairs. Between March AFB and Norton on the other side of Box Springs mountain, there was no way any of us would survive. While probably true, that was less comforting than he intended.

@Dougfir @ai6yr @driusan @cvvhrn
So yeah, I went to an elementary school adjacent to the Alameda, Naval Air Station, and this was during the Vietnam war, and we too, had to do the duck and cover under our desks, unfortunately, as has been the case since my time began…

Even at the age of seven, I was a highly logical thinker and had the audacity to inform the teacher that hiding under our desks was a waste of time because we were gonna get blown up anyway

Yeah, that was a phone call to my parents …

@MsMerope @Dougfir @ai6yr @driusan @cvvhrn I grew up in SoCal...I remember those duck and cover drills all through elementary school. I lived in El Toro when there was still a Marine Air Station.

I couldn't figure how my desk was going to do anything, in any disaster situation.

@julescelt01 @MsMerope @Dougfir @ai6yr @driusan The ducked under the desk made for easier charred carcass identification
@cvvhrn @julescelt01 @MsMerope @Dougfir @ai6yr @driusan they used to upset me too, I also knew they would do nothing. I wanted to watch out the window and see the light show