** About 200 miles off the coast, to be exact. As one of the characters notes, ''dozens'' of nukes were set off in the Nevada Proving Grounds, which are even closer to Las Vegas than the warning shot was to D.C., with no apparent side effects in Las Vegas. Weather patterns and ocean currents in the area would take the contaminated water away from the coast, and if the blast was an airburst there wouldn't be any fallout in any case.
* The senior commanders of all of the armed forces (except the Air Force) [[spoiler: are consipring to launch a military coup to remove the President.  Granted, the President was undergoing the impeachment process when the series began, and likely would have been removed by Congress even without the ''Colorado'' incident, but given the sheer blinding loyalty most of the military has shown thus far in the series, isn't this a setup for civil war?  Would the series have explored the ''Colorado'''s involvement in the subsequent fighting between different factions of the Navy--those who supported the President and those who supported the coup?]]

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