Nuke time waster

Ever wonder if a nuke hit a major local city if you would be safe? Well now you can play around with it without actually blowing anyone up. Kinda interesting and a fun, albeit dark, time waster. http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

awesome

So basically I should hope that they don't target Cape Canaveral.

Freaky. Looks like I'm headed for Vermont if it ever hits the fan

I know I'm hosed.

Top Tip: If you are not a safe distance, head TOWARD the expected impact.

The last thing you want is to "sort of" survive a nuclear blast.

Now place an HEU nuke in your home town and play with the variables to see how many there would be wiped out

I placed one at the university in town, ended up with 7,600 killed and another 5,000 injured. We have a population of 13,000.

Joys of being 20-30 miles from any town with a 10k+ population. Add in being up in the hills help.

I am not that far from Whiteman Air Force base, a legit target.

2 megaton air burst over Chicago? 1 million + initial casualties. I'm toast.

David S. Wallens wrote: So basically I should hope that they don't target Cape Canaveral.

Guess they're working off an old map

We're already radioactive. Any nuke strike here would be a big "whoops" on the part of the guy doing the aiming.

aircooled wrote: Top Tip: If you are not a safe distance, head TOWARD the expected impact. The last thing you want is to "sort of" survive a nuclear blast.

My love of the Fallout franchise suggests otherwise.

A kid in High School with me (class of '90) used to draw circles on maps showing us how we were all goners when the nukes came. People worried about gun/weapon obsessed kids way less pre Columbine.

looks like they would have to drop a bomb specifically on my town to get me. Of course we have the nation's strategic reserve of abandoned shoe factories and cancer causing homes courtesy of IBM, but I still feel like the crazy guy pushing the red button would aim for somewhere else first.

I plugged China's most powerful ICBM (5Mt) into the closest military base which is Fort Hood. I can be at their main gates in about twenty minutes.

The thermal radiation radius ends about ten kilometers from my front door.

It estimates 86,890 casualties with 101,000 estimated injuries. Humanitarian impact. Within the 10 psi radius of this detonation there were also:

hospitals/medical facilities: 43
fire stations: 4
schools/educational facilities: 107
places of worship: 101

That tsar bomba is no joke.

I would say a big variable is the yield. A Tsar Bomba is going to ruin your day for quite some area. A Dong Feng-5 on the other hand wouldn't worry me where I am outside of fallout depending on the wind.

The Tsar Bomba was a test device, not a deployed system. Once precision targeting systems came into widespread use it was no longer desirable to use raw weapon yields to ensure target elimination.

If you want to consider some of the more worryingly realistic possibilities, put a 20kt warhead over Tel Aviv or a 100t device in Times Square.

By now I must be on every list imaginable. Thanks

I work in DC only a few short miles from the Pentagon. Talk about hosed...

I could never get Nukemap 3D to work, it keeps asking me to the Earth plugin, even when I've tried installing it 5 times.

Pleasantly, if St. Louis were nuked during the cold war, much of St. Louis downtown would recover. The preferred target would be half a mile north of Lambert St. Louis International Airport as it is where F-15 fighters are manufactured and launched by Boeing (then McDonnell Douglas). With careful targeting, a sub-megaton bomb could level all of Boeing and the former Ford manufacturing facility with a 20 psi pressure blast. Florissant, Hazelwood, Ferguson, Bridgeton, St. Ann, and Bel-Ridge would be destroyed. The thermal radiation radius for 3rd degree burns would not extend into St. Charles (the "county" population center), Clayton (the county head), or St. Louis City but would affect some, but not all, of our shipping facilities (mainly Earth City; partially Riverview). Downtown, Forest Park and its associated museums, and most surrounding nature preserves would be unaffected. More importantly, all bridges over the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers are beyond any blast or burn effects. Those "cornered" in North County could still escape via US-67 North towards Alton, IL. Fallout would travel north of downtown and west of the majority of residential areas. Agriculture in Illinois and steel forges in Granite City would be contaminated. No one cares about East St. Louis.

A double-nuke would target both the airport and the Arch and kill all culture, manufacturing, and shipping capabilities of St. Louis but still spare the majority of the population. Additional nukes would be aimed at any surviving Arby's franchise locations, because berkeley 'em.

Yeah basically I am good unless they targeted my little podunk town directly. Even the nearest other city is across a mountain range.

One of the things I found interesting was how a few blocks one way or another could drastically increase or decrease the casualties rates. I am not talking just a few hundred or thousand but tens of thousands.

As the crow flies, I'm about 2 miles from the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command. I'm guessing we are close to the top of the list.

The 100MT Tsar Bomba would take out just about the entire coast of South Carolina. Fat Man wouldn't even take out the greater Charleston area if you don't factor in fallout.

Interesting site, I'm sure the NSA is keeping an eye on all of us now.

If the Russians sent a Torpol to the Little Rock AFB, not sure C-130s would be a primary target, pretty much all of my family would be hosed.

If they hit the weapons depot in Pine Bluff, I'm pretty well safe.

I'm not a Nuke expert, but assumed there would be more Fallout with an air burst, than a ground detonation, this model shows otherwise.