# 24: Season 6: Episodes 3-4 (8:00am - 10:00am) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-3-4-8-00am-10-00am/388128 "2007-01-15T23:17:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-3-4-8-00am-10-00am/388128/141 "2007-01-18T20:14:11Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] BTW, did anyone else find it strange that Karen Hayes felt the need to tell the President what a “suitcase nuke” was? You’d think that the POTUS would be quite familiar with this term. [/QUOTE] “Suitcase Nukes”? BAND NAME!!! 😃 Anyhoo… I don’t know about anyone else, but after Jack shot Curtis, I found the nuke explosion almost anticlimactic! So, after 5 seasons, we can be reasonably certain that the first threat is never the main threat. There are 5 mores nukes out there in the hands of the terrorists. It’s only hour 4. What the hell could possibly be worse? Can’t wait to find out! And, a minor hijack… Anyone watch _Countdown_ and _Scarborough Country_ on Tuesday? Apparently, MSNBC is accusing Fox of using **24** to generate fear among the American people to keep the “war on terror” agenda fresh in people’s minds, thereby furthering Fox’s supposed conservative agenda. Love ya, Keith, but :rolleyes: . ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-3-4-8-00am-10-00am/388128/142 "2007-01-19T06:03:36Z")
[QUOTE=ChuckForbin] I suppose we could wait for next week, but I am wondering - just how big was that bomb ? How many city blocks do you think it took out, how many people died ? Would it spread radiation to the whole city ? [/QUOTE] Well, they talked about the projected range and casualties in one of the “President and his advisors” scenes. It’s definitely smaller-scale than the season 2 nuke. I think a relatively small blast radius – I forget the projected casualties of the initial blast, but I think it was pretty small, like in the low thousands. They projected that the radiation fallout could affect up to 100,000, depending on weather conditions, etc. I don’t think it would spread to L.A. proper – having occurred in Valencia – unless there was a big prevailing southerly wind going on. I think the damage would have been much worse if they’d gotten the bomb deeper into L.A., which I think was probably the plan. I remembered being a little confused because I thought Fayed had said something about being able to detonate it in another hour – but then I realized that might refer to an intent to transport it into central L.A. first, until the CTU raid spoiled that possibility. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-3-4-8-00am-10-00am/388128/143 "2007-01-19T07:56:39Z")
IIRC, they described it as a 1 kiloton nuke. I think the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were 15 and 20 kilotons. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-6-episodes-3-4-8-00am-10-00am/388128.md?page=7)