Find out how your city would do in a nuclear attack!

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Would you be in danger if a nuke went off in the middle of your city?

Use this site and post the results. I'm making this thread so people realise the variation in the effects of different nukes. They aren't all the same, you can change the type of bomb on the right hand side and enable casualties.

This is the smallest bomb (on the list, smaller ones exist irl) created by the US

Compared to the largest one tested by the USSR

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 1

BeastOfSyracuse

Original post by Zargabaath

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Would you be in danger if a nuke went off in the middle of your city?

Holy crap. That Tsar Bomba basically took out the entire region; 3km radius fireball and a 60km thermal effects radius. I knew they'd tested a 50 megaton warhead but I never considered the effect on a particular target.

I punched in a 0.3 kiloton airburst centred on the Palace of Westminster. It takes out half of Whitehall, the London Eye etc. But if it happened I would be safe (as long as I wasn't admiring Big Ben when it detonated)

why?

Bear in mind the weather effects. If there was a slight wind blowing from the West in the second image, the bomb would affect everything out to The Wash.

Reply 4

Serine Soul

I'd do this but I feel like the MI5 will come running to arrest me because I am brown

Reply 5

Reue

As I live 2 minutes from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Weapons_Establishment

I'd guess that any map would drastically under-estimate the size of the explosion :biggrin:

Reply 6

popcornjpg

tbh maybe being in the blast zone would be a nicer experience. nuclear winter would be a bitch.

Reply 7

BeastOfSyracuse

Original post by Zargabaath

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Did you have a chance to see the YT video for the French Pacific tests, btw? Good footage, creepy music. It probably would have been quite interesting work though, being one of those scientists sailing out to the Pacific testing area, testing new designs and theories and measuring the actual yields against the predictions then refining etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NEa-qDqUCU

Reply 8

thunder_chunky

I have a feeling I wouldn't do so well since I live near a few millitary bases, one of which is a major NATO Base.

Reply 9

Plagioclase

Is it nuclear-weapons theme day on TSR today? :lol:

Reply 10

user73867

I think the only answer to the question "how would your city do in a nuclear attack?" is "fooking shite"

SS

Reply 11

Drewski

Original post by Plagioclase

Is it nuclear-weapons theme day on TSR today? :lol:

Better than Islam themed...

Reply 12

Plagioclase

Original post by Drewski

Better than Islam themed...

Not complaining, I'd be very happy for TSR to stay on nuke mode.

Reply 13

Zargabaath

Original post by BeastOfSyracuse

I did, I thought the ones exploding in mid-air looked pretty mindblowing (pun intended). Looks like another sun in the sky.

Wasn't there a lot of cases of them developing cancers and sterility a couple years down the line? Not to mention the Islanders who lived around the area.

Original post by Drewski

Bear in mind the weather effects. If there was a slight wind blowing from the West in the second image, the bomb would affect everything out to The Wash.