Nuke Map

[MrBogosity]

That's nothing, I put in 1e30 and beyond just for shits and giggles.

1e13 (10,000,000,000,000, or 10 trillion) kilotons is enough to make a fireball that will engulf the moon!

[Ibrahim90]

Are you sure you did it right? I got quite a bit of radiation in the surrounding area with 20 tons (.02 kilotons). I had to go down to 2 tons (.002 kilotons) to keep it just in that block.

I didn't consider the radiation fallout--just the blast itself (the radius of which is ~200 meters, and total destruction was within 80 meters--under 100 yards). However including the radiation fallout you would be correct.

@ skm: yeah, I did. first place I nuked with that (specifically the theoretical), I attacked Tel Aviv. It destroyed Hebron via thermal radiation, So I had to scale it down. it still roasted Jerusalem. Hopefully fellow Palestinians will accordingly not get any fancy ideas.

[Skm1091]

I really don't think Washington DC is a likely target because you would have to get that nuke in by ship. That more tedious than it looks.

[Skm1091]

I didn't consider the radiation fallout--just the blast itself (the radius of which is ~200 meters, and total destruction was within 80 meters--under 100 yards). However including the radiation fallout you would be correct.

@ skm: yeah, I did. first place I nuked with that (specifically the theoretical), I attacked Tel Aviv. It destroyed Hebron via thermal radiation, So I had to scale it down. it still roasted Jerusalem. Hopefully fellow Palestinians will accordingly not get any fancy ideas.

I don't think they could even if they wanted to. The 100 megaton and 50 megaton Tsar Bombs were as far as I know for the most part tested but never mass produced.  They are far too heavy to be used by any military and the ones that do exist are far too heavily guarded by the Russia Military for anyone to even get close and steal. 

[Travis Retriever]

1e13 (10,000,000,000,000, or 10 trillion) kilotons is enough to make a fireball that will engulf the moon!

Meanwhile, the 1e308 kilotons I put is probably more energy than was released in the Big Bang itself!

[evensgrey]

You know what is funny. The bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima would not even destroy 1/10 of Los Angeles country or Manhattan. You will need at least a hundred of those for each city.

IIRC, Hiroshima was particularly vulnerable to that type of attack (more so than LA or Manhattan is now), being largely located in a relatively small valley (which tended to contain the blast) and much of the residential area was the traditional light wood and paper interiors with tile roofs supported on unbraced vertical beams (which is relatively easy to knock down and set on fire).

[Skm1091]

IIRC, Hiroshima was particularly vulnerable to that type of attack (more so than LA or Manhattan is now), being largely located in a relatively small valley (which tended to contain the blast) and much of the residential area was the traditional light wood and paper interiors with tile roofs supported on unbraced vertical beams (which is relatively easy to knock down and set on fire).

good point.

Hiroshima was also a lot smaller in those days, wasn't it?

[evensgrey]

good point.

Hiroshima was also a lot smaller in those days, wasn't it?

Almost everywhere was a lot smaller in those days.  Manhattan might not have been, but there were probably a lot more people living there then, too, while since then population has shifted to the area surrounding the island.