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Terrifying “nuke map” reveals danger zone if nuclear bomb dropped on YOUR city

DEAD SCARY Terrifying “nuke map” reveals danger zone if nuclear bomb dropped on YOUR city, Jamie Harris, Technology and Science Reporter, The Sun 16 Feb 2022  

EVER wondered what the devastating impact would be if a nuclear bomb dropped on your area?

A terrifying tool reveals how some of the most destructive weapons known to humankind would pan out if launched on any spot around the world.

The NUKEMAP estimates everything from possible casualties to radioactive fallout.

Real weapons tested by North Korea, Russia and the US are among the detonations that users can simulate.

Even catastrophic bombs such as the ‘Little Boy’, which killed up to 166,000 people in Hiroshima in 1945, are available to try.

Expert Professor Alex Wellerstein came up with the idea using declassified nuclear weapons effects data.

Since launching it in 2012, the historian has seen 220million virtual detonations carried out on his site.

At one point he said the site picked up on a possible visit originating from North Korea………….

The so-called ‘King of the Bombs’, aka the Tsar Bomba’s maximum design yield (100 Mt) which was tested by the Soviet Union, has proven to be the most popular nuke to try.

If it was launched on London right now for example, casualties could be over 5.9million people.

Dropping it on New York would be even more devastating, with an estimated death toll of more than 8million people…………… https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/17670602/nukemap-nuclear-bomb-simulator/

February 17, 2022 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, weapons and war