Military and intelligence history mostly dealing with World War II.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Nuke the world
Have you ever
wondered what would happen to Moscow if it was hit with a Trident D5 nuclear missile?
How about a Tsar Bomba exploding over Washington DC?
Fear not dear
reader, you’re not the only one with weird unusual hobbies! The website nuclear secrecy allows you to
choose a city and a nuclear bomb and then see the effects of the blast.
important factors are not accounted for in this crude model: the altitude of blast (I presume the data is for air burst) and the produced radioactive fallout trace.
But one thing comes out quite clear: with air-bust and a nuke yield above 100kT (the modern warheads are mostly in 100-450 kT range) most kills in urban area were to be caused by a firestorm much larger and far more devastating than firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo - whole area several miles wide would burst into flames simultaneously and create its own fire-tonado that would feed air into the blaze
Remote, rural living, does provide peace-of-mind by being insignificant!
ReplyDeleteimportant factors are not accounted for in this crude model: the altitude of blast (I presume the data is for air burst) and the produced radioactive fallout trace.
ReplyDeleteBut one thing comes out quite clear: with air-bust and a nuke yield above 100kT (the modern warheads are mostly in 100-450 kT range) most kills in urban area were to be caused by a firestorm much larger and far more devastating than firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo - whole area several miles wide would burst into flames simultaneously and create its own fire-tonado that would feed air into the blaze