On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Tim May wrote:
Declan would be very unlikely to be in the lethal zone, unless he happened to be near one of the obvious targets.
(Which in my opinion would be the White House, the Congress, the Pentagon, or the densepack burrowcrat warrens. Using the above calculations, it is quite reasonable that big chunks of these buildings would survive a suitcase nuke placed a few hundred meters away. The Pentagon might lose a bite out of it, and thus look like some kind of mil-spec Apple logo.)
That's hardly comforting (not sure if it was meant to be). I work four or so blocks from the White House and spend a good bit of time in the Capitol and related buildings. My office is in the densepack lobbyist warren territory on K Street. I do live, however, about a mile and a half from anything especially targetworthy. -Declan