Nuclear Blast Mapper

PBS/American Experience ^

[WxMan2000]

Click on the above link for an interactive site that maps the blast damage and fallout patterns from a
hypothetical nuclear blast in the city of your choice.

[WxMan2000]

Had a co-worker show me this today. Seems fitting with all the nuclear terror talk this week...

[SpottedBeaver]

Holy Cow! I just took a look at just a 1MT ground blast in Downtown Dallas. I would be just inside the 12psi circle here at work.

I guess the only good thing that I could pull out of that, is that no matter what size nuke hit downtown, I would never know what hit me.

[Constitution Day]

How cheerful! Just what we need.

I'll have fun with this one, dude.

MKM - Heads up!

[Portnoy]

Looking at the Fallout estimates, how can that be related to a "dirty Nuke"?

What is the estimated amount of REMs produced?

[francisandbeans]

What I want to see is a mapper that would show a 25 megaton Nuke with an additional payload of 80,000 gallons of egg salad...and then show me where the furthest yoke would land.

[Bill Rice]

A bit disappointing - No choices for Afghanistan, Syria, or Saudi Arabia.

[Constitution Day]

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[gcraig]

That's some scary sh$t.

[LonePalm]

Gee, I was just going to send you a BIG BANG! on this one.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LoanPalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Poohbah]

I tried the 25MT airburst over San Diego. My house is a good ways away from downtown (about 8 miles), and I'm still in the "everything gets flattened" ring (5-12 psi). Happy thought: I'm next to a canyon, my house might be in a blast shadow.

[SpottedBeaver]

I guess that Registered's bombing run needed a little second-wave, clean-up action.

[bond7]

Very Cool - especially because my house is 30+ miles outside of town. FReepers - I will fondly remember each and every one of you.

Better idea - let's get this *&^$# trash before they get us.

[MomwithHope]

This is depressing. I'm going back to the cow thread.

[awestk]

Zounds!
Very depressing. I am toast here in Boston's North End... Not even a contest.

Anyone know the possible tonnage of a "backpack" nuke?

[NativeNewYorker]

I'd be vapor.

[JZoback]

Anybody got any marshmallows?

[Eala]

All of a sudden it's discomforting to be working so close to 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond WA 98052.

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=8^O

[billbears]

Well look at Raleigh and then the fallout range for a 1 meg . Looks like Hatteras or Buxton would be about the only safe place

[beowolf]

Maybe if more people see this, then property values in the West Valley of Phoenix will reflect their survival potential rather than the 'snob' value of the East Valley!-)

[Wrigley]

Not that Grand Rapids would be a prime target, but I'd be only a memory.