Nuke Map

[Skm1091]

http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Wha cha think?

[Gumba Masta]

Eh, it's a bit wonky after you pass the 100 Billion Kiloton threshhold

[Ibrahim90]

Eh, it's a bit wonky after you pass the 100 Billion Kiloton threshhold

EDIT: I forgot to even address this: yeah, it looks it. But that is largely due to the projection used to create the map.

now I know what the minimum warhead is to destroy the white-house, whilst minimizing collateral damage (~20 tons TNT equivalent).

no, doesn't mean I want to do that. nor do I necessarily recommend it.

[Skm1091]

EDIT: I forgot to even address this: yeah, it looks it. But that is largely due to the projection used to create the map.

now I know what the minimum warhead is to destroy the white-house, whilst minimizing collateral damage (~20 tons TNT equivalent).

no, doesn't mean I want to do that. nor do I necessarily recommend it.

People are some what worried about nuclear attack but I seriously doubt a terrorist group would be able to get a hold of a 15 megaton warhead. 

[Travis Retriever]

http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Wha cha think?

Pretty neat!  Do you know what formula(s) he uses for the blast radii relative as a function of the yield?

[Skm1091]

Eh, it's a bit wonky after you pass the 100 Billion Kiloton threshhold

100 billion kilotons? You would vaporize an entire continent with that kind of yield. 

[MrBogosity]

You can see why it goes wonky with 10,000,000,000 kilotons: it's trying to cover an area that spans a pole, and so it ends up repeating.

[Travis Retriever]

100 billion kilotons? You would vaporize an entire continent with that kind of yield.

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

[Travis Retriever]

Hell, I just tried putting in 10^100 kt.

[Skm1091]

You can see why it goes wonky with 10,000,000,000 kilotons: it's trying to cover an area that spans a pole, and so it ends up repeating.

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.

 

[Gumba Masta]

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.

I dunno, my idea of fun is watching a nude exotic dancer doing the chicken dance.

[Skm1091]

I dunno, my idea of fun is watching a nude exotic dancer doing the chicken dance.

I didn't say it would be fun, I said it's funny that a weapon that wiped out any entire city during ww2 would be peanuts to two of the biggest cities in the US today

[Ibrahim90]

People are some what worried about nuclear attack but I seriously doubt a terrorist group would be able to get a hold of a 15 megaton warhead.

I could see them getting a hold of 20 tons though (the strength I tested). the Hariri assassination involved the equivalent of 1 ton of TNT, though it wasn't nuclear. get together a plan, and you could have the white house, and everything within 100 yards, flattened with the equivalent of 20 tons TNT.

[MrBogosity]

I could see them getting a hold of 20 tons though (the strength I tested). the Hariri assassination involved the equivalent of 1 ton of TNT, though it wasn't nuclear. get together a plan, and you could have the white house, and everything within 100 yards, flattened with the equivalent of 20 tons TNT.

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.

[Skm1091]

I could see them getting a hold of 20 tons though (the strength I tested). the Hariri assassination involved the equivalent of 1 ton of TNT, though it wasn't nuclear. get together a plan, and you could have the white house, and everything within 100 yards, flattened with the equivalent of 20 tons TNT.

The Davy Crocket Bomb eh? The biggest yield I can see them getting is about 5 to 10 kilotons at most. I heard getting uranium is not that difficult. Trying to weaponize it and make a bomb is another story entirely.

BTW you tried the tsar bomb yet?