Nuke Map

[billt]

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

This site is pretty cool to fool around with. You can select a city, along with the nuclear weapon you wish to detonate, and it will show you the blast radius, along with all assorted other damage. You can choose ground or air burst, along with size in kilotons, all the way up to 100 megatons. It even has a inventory list of most all of the bombs of the nuclear equipped nations.

It shows fireball size, 20 and 5 PSI over pressure zones, as well as radius for radiation contamination and third degree burns. Good to know with Iran so close, and Hussein so impotent.

[Big Frank]

If Detroit was nuked I'd be okay as long as the fallout didn't blow this way.   

[Solus]

If Wright Patterson Air Base takes a 100MT surface blast, I'm toast...but at least there is a chance it will be painless.....

[tombogan03884]

There are no targets near enough to me to bother me. Even a 100MT on the Portsmouth sub base would not effect me directly.
However, everything that has to travel to this area passes through the area that would be devastated by practically any bomb aimed at Portsmouth. Effects would only be temporary though since all the traffic could be easily rerouted to the West.

[billt]

In todays nuclear arsenals, 1 to 1.5 Megatons is considered a very high yield weapon. The 50 Megaton "Tzar Bomba" air dropped weapons from the 50's and 60's have been replaced with easier to deliver MIRV, (Multiple Impact Reentry Vehicles), that fit on top of today's sub launched ICBM's. In this regard "less is more".

[Sponsor]

[tombogan03884]

I only checked the 100 MT Tzar Bomba, the largest designed an airburst would send fall out within 10 or 15 miles of here, but the winds blow in the other direction, and there are a couple chains of hills in between.
( I also checked if it went off over Brunswick NAS , that didn't come any where near here. But I would not want to be in Portland Me. !!! )

[brushmore]

Don't worry about that Tzar bomb.  They'd never get it over here since it's so big.  The most likely threat is from the islamic nut jobs.  They certainly have the will and are working hard on the means I am sure.  Anything they would realistically use would be in the kiloton range. 

[tombogan03884]

I thought of that, but the nearest worthwhile targets are all down in the Seacoast so I figured if I was safe from the REALLY big one I didn't need to worry about the realistic possibilities.

[kmitch200]

If someone toasts Luke AFB in the afternoon when the winds are predominantly from the West, houses in Phx will REALLY be cheap.

[billt]

I have a bad feeling before all of this ISIS nonsense ends, we'll see some type of nuclear weapon detonated somewhere in that part of the world. Israel is getting more nervous of Iran every passing day. Obama is perfectly willing to allow them to go nuclear. I rather doubt Israel is. This is going to ride on how long Israel is going to wait. My guess is their patience is quickly coming to an end with the whole Muslim world...... Especially Iran.