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I have two guesses: this simulation is really inaccurate, or the average warhead is actually quite small and targeting military assets instead of civilian ones.
by 93po 4y ago
I have two guesses: this simulation is really inaccurate, or the average warhead is actually quite small and targeting military assets instead of civilian ones. A nuclear bomb on a military facility maybe only needs to be big enough to destroy a few square miles, not big enough to level Manhattan.
edit: after searching, average ICBM is 500-1000 kilotons which basically destroys most buildings in 50 square miles and causes third degree burns for around 150 square miles (probably killing most). Nuke map shows 1.5 million fatalities in downtown Manhattan with 800 kilotons
- grecy 4y agoThanks for the info. > average ICBM is 500-1000 kilotons which basically destroys most buildings in 50 square miles and causes third degree burns for around 150 square miles (probably killing most). OK, makes sense to me. > Nuke map shows 1.5 million fatalities in downtown Manhattan with 800 kilotons Huh? That means there are only 1.5 million people in 50 square miles of Manhattan? (ignoring the 150 of third degree burns) That seems terribly low to me. Manhattan in it's entirety is 22 square miles [1] So one "average" nuke will easily kill everyone in all of Manhattan and a ton of the surrounding area... but that's only 1.5 mil? [1] https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=manhattan+swaure+miles+size https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=manhattan...
- 93po 4y agoI agree that nuke map could be pretty wrong. I sort of doubt they store population density information for the entire planet