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This doesn't take topography into account. I suspect that would be fairly important for some cities like San Francisco.
by whyenot 16y ago
This doesn't take topography into account. I suspect that would be fairly important for some cities like San Francisco.
- hga 16y agoIndeed. While I haven't checked up on any recent research or findings, as of the '70s/80s it was thought that though Nagasaki was hit by a slightly more powerful bomb than Hiroshima, it suffered less due to its hilly terrain. (The biggest difference, though, was due to the latter resulting in a firestorm, and outside of perhaps Somerville, MA there are very few US cities with enough fuel per area for one of those to develop).