found this link on another blog. Certainly an attention grabbing read. I guess I'm too dumb to really have a great knowledge about "Transhumanism". I excerpted the disclaimer and what I (myopically I know) read as the scariest part.
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=120Disclaimer: if this post bothers you, please do spend serious time on coming up with solutions, and feel free to send them to me. My purpose in writing it is obviously to encourage people to spend more of their time and money on potential solutions, instead of sitting around, watching television and waiting for the government to do everything (it won’t). Be forewarned, these type of scenarios are invented regularly by poorly educated fiction authors, and are nothing new, even if you personally haven’t happened to have heard of them. I’ve gotten some angry comments, most of which I delete, and it’s funny that if many of you ran across the same scenario in a Bond film, you would be entertained, but when you see it here, you get all hot under the collar. This is a counterterrorism article, not a pro-terrorism article. To defeat your enemy, you must start thinking like him. Intelligent commentary welcome.
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3. Nuke New York City, particularly Manhattan.
Here, people are packed so closely that a million casualties from a nuclear attack, even if “only” a 1-megaton nuclear attack, is harrowingly realistic. According to this nuclear weapon effects calculator, the thermal radiation radius (3rd degree burns) of a 1-megaton nuclear blast is ~11.7 km. Calculating the area from the radius gives us 430 square kilometers of people with 3rd degree burns. The blast radius would extend well into adjacent boroughs. A million deaths would wipe out 1/300 of the American population. A more impressive 10-megaton explosion would triple the blast radius. The global psychological and economic effects of such an attack are unknown, but would obviously be very severe.