Comments on: Nuclear Terrorism Blast Maps https://lifeboat.com/blog/2007/03/nuclear-terrorism-blast-maps Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 25 Apr 2017 11:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: Tom McCabe https://lifeboat.com/blog/2007/03/nuclear-terrorism-blast-maps#comment-715 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:13:19 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=65#comment-715 Nice picture; I honestly didn’t know that even a 10 KT nuclear weapon would only level a few city blocks. As compared with a full-out nuclear war, which would just kill tens of millions, set research back years and thoroughly decimate every transhumanist organization I know of.

It also requires IE, and so I can’t use it.

]]> By: Tom McCabe https://lifeboat.com/blog/2007/03/nuclear-terrorism-blast-maps#comment-688 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:04:29 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=65#comment-688 If there are so many of these terrorists running around wanting to blow us up, why haven’t we seen more low-level incidents with truck bombs and the like? Even 9/11 required nothing more than two dozen people with a modicum of intelligence and a willingness to blow themselves up. The level of expertise required to even assemble a nuclear weapon guarantees that it will be much more difficult and thus much less common than a two-bit backpack bomb. We consider it national news when someone brings a gun to school and shoots people, and there are a hundred million-odd guns in this country. In comparison, how many sites are there for fissile materials? Even the poorly-secured ones at least have dedicated security guards. While my high school’s computer censor didn’t even block a blatant list of instructions for making RDX.

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