Hi Blast,

Your point is well-taken and understood. The main point I was making is that these toys are a bigger deal than perhaps most people like to think about. Even the smallest 5k or 10k nukes--which are described by the U.S. military as "demolition charges" that are used to take out airports or hardened command centers, not cities--will make a horrendous mess out of your day, and the day of everyone within several miles. If a 10kt nuke went off in lower Manhattan, if I were in the Bronx and facing north, I'd probably be okay (facing south, I'd likely be flash blinded for days).

Having said that , I don't make many plans for what to do if something like that goes off in NYC. Well . . . I don't make any *special* plans for it.