So it happened pretty much
So it happened pretty much the way they thought it would. Some buncha nuts somewhere got all the right parts, and put them together, and built a bomb. They put it in a little dingy at the end of some dead-end Jersey City street, and one martyr putt-putted that little rubber boat across the water, right up against the West Side Highway, and pop! off went a tiny little 18-kiloton boomboom. Three million people died outright...another three hundred thousand within the week as the city descended rapidly into chaos. A much higher toll, it turned out, than the Government had accounted for in its projected fatalities reports. Fallout emptied Jersey City, Newark...
