Nuke your neighborhood. Interactive map allows you to see the effects.

[WillParkinson]

Via NPR here's a handily terrifying interactive map where you can test-bomb nukes on your neighborhood.

The explosion creates a series of concentric circles, color-coded to show the zone where everything is incinerated, the space where most things get emulsified or crushed, the space where radiation is lethal, the space where people are poisoned by radiation, the space where they are badly burned — concentric circles of destruction. The effects are chilling and fascinating. When I tried out some of the more powerful bombs, I was stunned by their destructive power. I had no idea.

When it comes down to it, I've always been in the "the living will envy the dead" camp. I'd rather be instantaneously vaporized than live without expanded cable. So to speak.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/02/17/147042804/nuking-my-house-on-line-you-can-too

(I tried it with my Milwaukee neighborhood. Wow. I had no idea.)

[warrior1]

1. The largerest one

would take out about 1/4 to 1/3 of California in it happened over Sacramento.

[dana_b]

2. creepy and eye opening

I "fat manned" my neighborhood. I think I'd rather be in the immediate area rather than the outskirts where 3rd degree burns are rampant.

[Turbineguy]

3. If I nuke

Rush Limbaugh will Chuck Norris come and kick my ass?

[izquierdista]

4. He wouldn't even be medium rare

I think you would have to turn him over and use a second one if you want it done in the center.

[Bruce Wayne]

9. You make it sound like one of *those* massages

Although obviously with a very different happy ending.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Good news where I live, won't be one

Too many strategic hardenned targets, so I am assured a fast checkout.



I know, happy joy.

[Posteritatis]

6. I can see an airbase and a navy base from my window, so I'm set. (nt)

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. We both love that dark humor

Many years ago I took a class on this...strangely it gave me a sense of peace.

Those poor....down in Tijuana though, they are in the you are well you knw, and good luck, unless the army base is also targeted.

[Bruce Wayne]

8. Sobering.

I tried a direct blast on downtown Gotham with the standard US B-61 nuke and the air blast radius reached all the way out to my stately family manor north of town. The widest radiation zone reached all the way to Metropolis. Damn, sorry Lois.

[WillParkinson]

10. So what you're saying....

Is Superman and Wonder Woman will be having a lot of quality time on their hands?