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Nuke Map: Interactive Nuclear Bomb Map
- bamboozled 9y agoLook like this site has been nuked, oh the irony :(
- CodeWriter23 9y agoAhem. Hacker Nuked.
- docdeek 9y agoIt’s a nice page - I used to use it to illustrate the power of the various weapons in an intro to international politics class I taught. The Tsar Bomba was always a hit with the more morbid students.
- nnq 9y agoIt's good for driving the point that usually you want lots of small nukes, not a few big ones for maximum damage. Oh, and yeah, there's also the "surface detonation for maximum mayhem" lesson to be learned. Highly educational!
- lin_lin 9y agoI thought you wanted to detonate a bit above the surface to spread out the shock waves, explosion, and not "waste" energy going into the ground?
- MertsA 9y agoAFAIK, detonating at altitude is done for fallout reasons. Detonating at the ground would make the fallout much worse.
- lin_lin 9y agoNoted. Could come in handy at some point!
- daxfohl 9y agoInteresting use of the word "worse".
- arethuza 9y agoAirbursts are generally used to maximise the area damaged at the cost of peak damage - so for soft targets like cities. Ground bursts would be used for hard targets (deep bunkers, missile silos) that are relatively small but hard to kill. I suspect in wartime fall-out wouldn't be a major factor in planning all out attacks whereas it was a big factor in atmospheric testing.
- jacobush 9y agoI also wonder how dangerous fallout was considered to be, in the long run. I have the impression that up into the late 60s fallout was considered dangerous in the short term but not after say a year.
- arethuza 9y agoThere are rules of thumb like the 7:10 rule: https://emilms.fema.gov/IS3/FEMA_IS/is03/REM0504050.htm https://emilms.fema.gov/IS3/FEMA_IS/is03/REM0504050.htm Long term effects are tricky because of biological processes concentrating some elements (I think mainly calcium, iodine). Of course, if you want to get really nasty you can salt your bombs with appropriate elements (notably cobalt) that have long lived nasty isotopes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb
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- daxfohl 9y agoI spent a couple days obsessed with this shortly after moving to Seattle (from small town Midwest) a few months ago. Wouldn't mind having something similar for impending mega-earthquakes and tsunamis. Wait, why did I move here? Oh, I guess I got sold on the rain and the high cost of living. :)
- technics256 9y agoThere exist expected inundation maps for the Washington coast I believe, due to the threat of that mega tsunami earthquake.
- bouvin 9y agoYou can combine nuclear speculation with (induced) tsunamis with the (hypothetical) Russian Status-6 Ocean Multipurpose System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#Nuclear_arsenal_of_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_weapons_of_mass_des...
- mikeash 9y agoWell, that's terrifying.
- mr_overalls 9y agoHoly hell. Einstein's quote about World War IV being fought with sticks and rocks wasn't hyperbole.
- caf 9y agoThe author is currently working on a sequel/companion to NUKEMAP: MISSILEMAP.
- jv22222 9y agoQuestion: If I understand this correctly, it means all one would have to do is move 30-60 mins away from the center of a suspected target city to massively increase one's chances of surviving an attack on said city? (From 20mt NK strike, for example)
- Piskvorrr 9y agoYes. "Not actually being there" is very useful in this regard, and 60 minutes of commute can get you rather far away.
- TheOtherHobbes 9y agoYes - unless there are ground bursts generating fall out, and the wind is blowing in your direction. The only way to survive fall out is to stay in a shelter with good shielding for an absolute minimum of two weeks. In an all-out war in which most cities are attacked, that could easily extend to months, or even a year. Unless you have a Geiger counter or dosimeter you won't realise you've been irradiated, and it can take two to four weeks for a fatal dose to kill you. For the first part of that you may well feel absolutely fine.
- gambiting 9y agoConsidering that there is almost zero public shelters anywhere in the western world nowadays, if a nuke goes off nearby I'd say it's a good bet you're dead even if you survive the blast.
- arethuza 9y agoOn the contrary - if a single nuclear weapon explodes and you survive the immediate effects not too badly injured I'd say there is a very good chance that you'd survive. Of course, for an attack with thousands of weapons there would be other problems but that's not the scale of the threat to the US from NK.
- Markoff 9y agowhy would you need public shelter? i have relatively big cellar in basement of my apartment building where I could squeeze my family, so does my mother, while my father's cellar is like 4x5m, he could stay there with many people only when I think of my sister who built house without basement or same goes for cousin, I guess they don't stand much chance we really need remake of Threads
- basicplus2 9y agoTruly horrifying
- mar77i 9y agoThe only winning move is not to play. Boom!
- jlebrech 9y agodoes this site block NK access, I can see Kim Jong Un using this to plan his next move.
- anc84 9y agodoes this site block US access, I can see Dolan Trump using this to plan his next move.
- vonzeppelin 9y agoAt least Harry Truman can't get to it.
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- mpg515 9y agoI'm really glad this one keeps making the rounds. Of course this is not even close to the first time this has been posted but I always continue going back to it after all these years.
- gruglife 9y agoMorbid
- mobilemidget 9y agoAfter recent news, I kind of miss Guam in the preset list.
- Markoff 9y agojust checked it on Beijing where I used to live and it seem only tourist city center would be eliminated with regular weapons, while most of the population outside would be untouched, I was surprised how weak is supposed to be nuclear bomb, I remembered always it was like 10-20km deadly and 50km run away zone, but maybe I am confusing it with nuclear power plant