If you feel your life is lacking a little in pointless anxiety this festive season, here’s a fun online tool that lets you find out how much damage would occur if a nuclear bomb exploded in your neighbourhood.
NUKEMAP was created by Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology.It’s been around for a few years, but has gone viral in recent days after appearing in the Data Is Beautiful section of Reddit.
Simply type in the name of the city you want to virtually nuke, and select the size of explosion, from a 20 kiloton ‘Davy Crockett’ (the smallest nuclear weapon produced by the US) to the terrifying 100 megaton “Tsar Bomba”.
The map then displays colour-coded circles indicating fireball radius, radiation radius, air blast radius and thermal radiation radius.
Here are the likely effects of a Chinese Dong Feng-5 ICBM exploding over central London: [maps on original] ……..http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/12/17/would-happen-nuclear-weapon-detonated-nearest-city-find-online/
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