Missilemap is designed to make it easy to see the relationship between missile range accuracy and warhead size. Missilemap is an interactive data visualization by alex wellerstein an assistant professor of science and technology studies in the college of arts and letters at the stevens institute of technology. Fireball 0 56 miles wide in the area closest to the bomb s detonation site searing flames incinerate most buildings.
The main effects of the nuclear blast display as four coloured zones. Tested on 30 october 1961 as an experimental verification of calculation principles and multi stage thermonuclear weapon designs it. Tsar bomb was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created.
The soviet rds 220 hydrogen bomb code name ivan or vanya known to the western nations as tsar bomba russian. Paralyze the enemy s communication and military then strike with one massive blow using thousands of nuclear weapons bye bye. Nuclear strategy during the cold war was for the soviets to detonate a 20 megaton thermo nuclear weapon 250 miles above the center of the united states to disable all electronics and computers.
This will create a very dirty nuclear fallout situation. A ground burst detonation will not only pulverize everything within a given radius but will also pulverize many countless tons of soil and dirt into the atmosphere. The real effects surrounding the nuclear targets on any given map will depend on the type of nuclear detonation.
New york chicago houston los angeles san francisco or washington dc. A nuclear attack on us soil would most likely target one of six cities according to one expert. It s got options too.
Outrider s interactive nuclear blast map allows users to quickly put in their data and get a nice map of the fireball shockwave radioactive ring and heat blast. Using the hiroshima nuclear bomb as an example more than 420 000 people would be killed if a 15 kiloton atomic blast occurred in new york city and almost 100 000 would die in washington d c. Nuclear target map is an interesting and unique program unlike other nuclear target maps because it lets you pick the target and what size nuclear device that the area you chose is hit with and then shows the likely.
A few days ago i was doing research on nuclear war world war 3 and potential nuclear targets and safe distances from those target sites when i came across the nukemap.
Nuclear bomb radius map usa. Nukemap is a mapping mash up that calculates the effects of the detonation of a nuclear bomb.
Nukemap is a mapping mash up that calculates the effects of the detonation of a nuclear bomb.
