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Title: Nuke your city with these bombs! See the diameter of destruction!
Post by: GmanJoe on February 27, 2009, 09:24:28 AM

http://www.carloslabs.com/projects/200712B/GroundZero.html

Type in your city.

Choose your weapon.

Click NUKE IT! See how close it hits your home. :)

Title: Nuke your city with these bombs! See the diameter of destruction!
Post by: Eiksirf on February 27, 2009, 10:27:31 AM

Looks like I better move to Brazil, just in case.

Also, I was surprised about the WW2 bombs, they didn\'t have a blast radius as big as I always imagined. So, they dropped two, I guess.

Title: Nuke your city with these bombs! See the diameter of destruction!
Post by: GmanJoe on February 27, 2009, 10:44:45 AM

Quote from: Eiksirf

Looks like I better move to Brazil, just in case.

Also, I was surprised about the WW2 bombs, they didn\'t have a blast radius as big as I always imagined. So, they dropped two, I guess.

You\'re looking at modern day cities that are megalopolous compared to back then. The wind would have still "degloved" (blow the skin off) people from from up to 2 miles away from the blast radius.

Title: Nuke your city with these bombs! See the diameter of destruction!
Post by: luckee on February 27, 2009, 01:48:48 PM

Quote from: Eiksirf

Looks like I better move to Brazil, just in case.

Also, I was surprised about the WW2 bombs, they didn\'t have a blast radius as big as I always imagined. So, they dropped two, I guess.

Only two huh?

You probably should google thermonuclear devices.

Title: Nuke your city with these bombs! See the diameter of destruction!
Post by: Coredweller on February 27, 2009, 03:01:08 PM

Modern superpowers rely entirely on megaton-range fusion weapons, so don\'t bother looking at the kiloton weapons.  If a terrorist somehow constructed a fission weapon, it would be in the Kt range, but if we were attacked by China or Russia, each city would get blanketed with multiple megaton range warheads.  
 
BTW, the Tsar Bomba test from 1961 was really scary.  It was the largest hydrogen bomb ever tested, at 50 Mt.  Otherwise entirely impractical.
 
I recommend the book Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sun-Making-Hydrogen-Bomb/dp/0684824140/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235775211&sr=1-1) for many interesting stories about the development and testing of fusion weapons!  Interesting and scary.  :)

Title: Nuke your city with these bombs! See the diameter of destruction!
Post by: Luke on February 27, 2009, 03:06:33 PM

I\'m totally gonna read that...

Title: Nuke your city with these bombs! See the diameter of destruction!
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on February 27, 2009, 05:01:34 PM

well, the biggest nuke misses my suburb. If there were a north / north east wind. We\'d be screwed.

Title: Nuke your city with these bombs! See the diameter of destruction!
Post by: THX on March 01, 2009, 03:57:04 PM

if the white house gets targeted you guys can have my ipod

Title: Nuke your city with these bombs! See the diameter of destruction!
Post by: Phil on March 01, 2009, 10:10:30 PM

300kt and up and I\'m toast, but really, who is going to nuke cincinnati?

Title: Nuke your city with these bombs! See the diameter of destruction!
Post by: Bozco on March 02, 2009, 12:57:51 AM

Oklahoma in 2010

hahahaha

Title: Nuke your city with these bombs! See the diameter of destruction!
Post by: clips on March 02, 2009, 07:01:00 AM

Uhm, so anything within the last two outer bands are destroyed as well, or is that moreso radiation sickness?