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| Fun with nuclear weapons |
| 2009-04-20 |
| This little website lets you pick any point on earth and see what the zone of destruction would look like if you dropped a nuke or an asteroid there. Doesn't account for terrain effects, but it's still fun in a slightly disturbing way. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #10 The Paks better hope they get hit by a bomb - an asteroid would wipe out them and all their neighbors - and half of Africa. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-04-20 22:33 |
| #9 Free radical comment #5. Ask and it shall be given. Here is calculator for your 2 KT unit. Would you want it delivered by air or by car? It's your choice. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-04-20 21:32 |
| #8 The asteroid-on-Mecca scenario is definitely excessive, that would take out my friends house on Koh Samui in Thailand, and I hope to go there one day. If Mecca delenda est, the B61 is my boom-of-choice. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2009-04-20 20:32 |
| #7 Come 2029-2036, iff scientific calcs are wrong and APOPHIS strikes the earth [MOON PEOPLE > YEAH, EARTH!], PERTS > ITS THE PACIFIC = NORTH ASIA-PACIFIC that will be ground zero. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-04-20 19:47 |
| #6 The "asteroid impact" is the Chixulub impact, an approximately 10km diameter object that is suspected as the killer of the dinosaurs. There are smaller asteroids/meteoroids. I like to play around with the effects of a 250m3 object, either solid nickel-iron, or a very tightly packed methane-water-ice mix. The effects range from about twice the impact of the "Tsar Bomba" 50mt weapon, to up to ten times the impact. Surprisingly, the methane-water-ice mix is more explosive than the nickel-iron, producing a plasma cloud about 25km in diameter. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-04-20 17:23 |
| #5 I dropped a Little Boy on the UN- my apartment is just outside the outer blast radius. It would prolly still suck though. Can't we get a 2kt 'pocket nuke?' |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2009-04-20 15:34 |
| #4 Since you guys picked the SA target, I went with San Francisco. That is a "damn big asteroid". |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-04-20 15:27 |
| #3 funny. you too? |
| Posted by: Zorba Elmusotle3618 2009-04-20 15:10 |
| #2 And you can even pick mecca:) |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2009-04-20 14:39 |
| #1 damn big asteroid they got there.... |
| Posted by: Cheretch Lumplump4731 2009-04-20 12:40 |