Ever wondered how much damage a nuke would do to your town?

[Alex]

Well, now you can find out.

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Just type in the place, select the type of weapon and a few other factors and off you go.

Just some examples for comparison. In the village where I live it at the moment (pop 8000) a crude terrorist device going off at ground level would cause around 400 casualties. That same bomb, going off in Glasgow (pop 500,000) would kill and injure around 5000.

Take the largest detonated nuclear weapon and set it off in between Glasgow and Edinburgh, you've just taken out 50% of the population of the country. Do it in London and that is over 9,000,000 people hit (almost twice the population of Scotland). Make these airbursts (which they would be because you do more damage that way. Although what you really want is an airborne explosion where the fireball touches the ground apparently) and we are up to 12,000,000. Hit Tokyo instead with a westward wind, and we jump up to 21,000,000.

And that is just from one such weapon.

[Trevor]

They can nuke Pretoria: I must just not be there when it happens (100 000 casualties)

[RCMerchant]

I dropped a Czar Bomb on Lawton- it took out most of Southwest Michigan.  Part of Indiana too.

[Trevor]

I dropped a Czar Bomb on Lawton- it took out most of Southwest Michigan.  Part of Indiana too.

[LilCerberus]

Richmond, VA.
I went through them all yesterday.
With Hurricane Sally to the south, a blast from the ground level would blow a pretty mess in a northeast direction, some going all the way up the coast...

[ER]

I played around with this. Terrible.

[Dennis]

I recall watching the documentary mini-series "War" written & hosted by Gwynne Dyer, in the final episode "Notes on Nuclear War" he interviewed a veteran of the US Army air force from WWII who said something like this "Everybody knows that 65,000 to 75,000 people were killed by an atomic bomb at Hiroshima, and that another 55,000 to 65,000 died at Nagasaki but hardly anyone remembers that over 150,000 died in the firestorm at Dresden, the same or more in the firestorm at Hamburg and over 200,000 in the Tokyo firestorms, the problem is war, not just nuclear war." 

[Alex]

As an example, it took 1,000 aircraft to cause the Dresden firestorm. Hiroshima was a single aircraft. Of course nowadays you don't even need that.

[bob]

out of boredom I played some with this -- that's 2020 in a nut shell

[VenomX73]

General Beringer

Scramble the jets... get NORAD on the horn.

Bring us to Defcon 3