"I have in the past made maps of this sort for use in teaching, when I want to emphasize how 'impressive' the first hydrogen bomb was when compared to the first atomic bombs," Wellerstein wrote in the post. Wellerstein's blog is about "nuclear secrecy, past and present." In a blog post about the project, creator Alex Wellerstein, a science historian at the American Institute of Physics, said he built the tool because he wasn't satisfied with any of the other nuclear-effects calculators he'd found online.
This was an incredibly stupid decision, as I ended up annihilating my own apartment as well. "I dropped the never-tested 100-megaton Tsar Bomba on the Gawker Media HQ in Manhattan. "This grimly fascinating Web site allows you to drop everything from Fat Man to Minutemen I warheads to the Tsar Bomba on everywhere from Ulan Bator to Kalamazoo," Cyriaque Lamar wrote at io9. Indeed, when experimenting with the tool, I couldn't bring myself to see what would happen to my own city, San Francisco, or to some of my other favorite places, like Paris or New York.īut others clearly aren't as cowed by this, and already, Nukemap users have generated more than 1 million detonations. It is quite a scary and sobering experience.
TSAR BOMBA RADIUS MAP SERIES
When you click the "detonate" button, you quickly see a map with a series of colored circles that show the radii of the fireball, the air blast, the spread of radiation, and the spread of thermal radiation. Nukemap lets you choose from a long list of cities to experiment with-or drag the map's marker wherever you want-and then choose either a custom yield in kilotons, or one of a list of famous bombs. Say you're inclined to see just how bad the destruction would be in London if "Fat Man," the second A-bomb dropped on Japan by the Americans during World War II, detonated there. With Nukemap, a new tool that lets anyone test out-on a Google Map-the effects of some of history's most famous nuclear explosions on cities around the world, you can.
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