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To be quite honest, I'm not sure America as we know it could survive the detonation of a nuke in a major city, but if we tear it down anyway in fear of the poss
by noonespecial 13y ago
To be quite honest, I'm not sure America as we know it could survive the detonation of a nuke in a major city, but if we tear it down anyway in fear of the possibility, the only thing missing is the boom.
- microb 13y agoTearing down America with Orwellian surveillance is one thing, losing NYC to mushroom cloud is something entirely different. The mushroom cloud issue is a very real problem and many (everyone?) would say we would do whatever it takes to prevent such a thing.
- nostrademons 13y agoIt survived Hurricane Katrina, which created devastation similar to a nuclear weapon, albeit with a somewhat lower (though still very significant) death toll. I think it would matter a lot which city. A nuke in Manhattan? Forget it - there goes the stock exchange, most financial firms, Madison Avenue, 11 million Americans, and the most recognizable city on earth. DC? There goes the government. Cleveland? We'd probably be okay. Something like Boston or SF would be borderline - it'd be a tragedy, but the country would survive. I wonder what a nuke in Silicon Valley would be like though: a large one well-placed near Sunnyvale would take out Google, Apple, Facebook, EBay, Adobe, and Yahoo.
- noonespecial 13y agoI was thinking the destruction would be more philosophical, an acute and immediate version of the slow burn that seems to be pulling it apart at the middle now. If a city got nuked I think its possible that the US might split into two groups. Those that would literally accept a police state to prevent it from happening again and those (mostly who didn't live in cities like the one destroyed) who would not. I believe that this would end in two or more independent countries.