# WTF is with all the Lets Pop A Nuke threads lately? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 7, 2002, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-with-all-the-lets-pop-a-nuke-threads-lately/112901 "2002-06-07T22:30:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-with-all-the-lets-pop-a-nuke-threads-lately/112901/21 "2002-06-09T05:06:09Z")
> [@](#): > > ? Chad? Oh, Chad sounds good, let’s nuke Chad… Yeah, aren’t they responsible for the problems in Floriday??? :rolleyes: [sub]it’s not like they’re innocent. [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-with-all-the-lets-pop-a-nuke-threads-lately/112901/22 "2002-06-09T05:08:57Z")
Damn, Tamerlane…you beat me by a minute. Good to know you have a sense of humor also. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-with-all-the-lets-pop-a-nuke-threads-lately/112901/23 "2002-06-09T16:56:15Z")
The target is completely wrong… These terrorist aren’t coming from the Middle East. At least one of them is a French citizen. The yahoo with the bomb in his shoe was British. I believe Hamburg, Germany has been implicated as the location of the planning process. If we are going to nuke anyone, I think it should be France, Britian and Germany. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-with-all-the-lets-pop-a-nuke-threads-lately/112901/24 "2002-06-09T17:09:45Z")
Musn’t forget Spain, now. Ohh! While we’re at it… Didn’t most of the terrorists get their flight training in the US…? Let’s nuke _ourselves!_ Wheee…! Damn us Americans! Providing terrorist training…! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-with-all-the-lets-pop-a-nuke-threads-lately/112901/25 "2002-06-09T20:23:24Z")
Yeah, **Tranquilis** , you’re right, sigh … Fundamentally it’s a desire to make problems go away quickly with a minimum of effort or thought. And the same goes for the sub-nucular assertion that “we should just (have the Americans) send a shitload of troops into Iraq and get that bastard Saddam once and for all”, and so forth. “It’s taking longer than we thought.” - Cecil ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-with-all-the-lets-pop-a-nuke-threads-lately/112901/26 "2002-06-10T07:44:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dangerosa \* > **The yahoo with the bomb in his shoe was British.** And his nook-yoo-lur sneakers were made in Amsterdam. What’s that mushroom cloud at the horizon? ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-with-all-the-lets-pop-a-nuke-threads-lately/112901/27 "2002-06-10T15:49:19Z")
Hey, where was Timothy McVeigh from? Might as well nuke his hometown, too, just to make sure any homegrown terrorists know we aren’t kidding. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-with-all-the-lets-pop-a-nuke-threads-lately/112901/28 "2002-06-10T16:53:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by celestina \* > Can you begin to imagine what would happen if folks just decided to set off a warhead. I’m not sure if any studies have been done to see how the atomic bombs we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and all the nuclear testing we did back in the mid-20th century or so has affected the environment and folks’ health as a result. > … > it’s not going to stop all the radiation and crap from fucking up the environment even worse. Okay, so I’m not a nuclear physicist, correct my ignorance on these matters. If folks just decided to pop off a warhead … well, as of the end of 1995, we knew of [2,056](http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/nukenotes/mj95nukenote.html#anchor255480) times that a warhead was detonated. The world isn’t destroyed yet. Note that I’m not saying that there have been no ill-effects – there have been, and I agree with the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty – but one more explosion isn’t going to affect the environment or folks’ health too much more. Tack on about a dozen more for the Pakistan and Indian testing a few years ago, and the US accounts for only about half of the known number. Still, it’s over a thousand. (Yes, I realize that the health of those immediately underneath the warhead will be adversely affected, and the detritus from blowing up a city will be much, much more toxic and dangerous than the fallout from a test explosion, but my point was that there have been more nuclear explosions than most people are aware of.) ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-with-all-the-lets-pop-a-nuke-threads-lately/112901/29 "2002-06-10T18:45:05Z")
Well, we should just nuke everyone, including ourselves. It’s the only way to be safe! ---
**Author:** ![Amok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Amok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amok)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-with-all-the-lets-pop-a-nuke-threads-lately/112901/30 "2002-06-11T12:57:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dangerosa \* > Hey, where was Timothy McVeigh from? Might as well nuke his hometown, too, just to make sure any homegrown terrorists know we aren’t kidding. Pendleton, New York. It looks like it’s up near Niagara Falls. So, you see, McVeigh was practically Canadian. I knew we could blame those damn foreigners for that one. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-with-all-the-lets-pop-a-nuke-threads-lately/112901/31 "2002-06-11T15:39:57Z")
We got a winner on the homegrown terrorists. … Looks like we might get to nuke Chicago. Sorry Cecil. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-with-all-the-lets-pop-a-nuke-threads-lately/112901.md?page=1)