If you want to find out what kind of destruction a nuclear bomb blast would cause in your city, this simulator will answer your fears.
The issue of nuclear weapons and their use kept people awake at night especially during the Cold War, when the vision of nuclear conflict was closer than ever. Despite various arrangements and non-proliferation and cease-and-desist agreements on the testing of nuclear weapons, world powers such as the US, Russia and China still have huge nuclear arsenals that they can use at any time to destroy the enemy.
Faced with people’s perceptions of a potential conflict and the devastation associated with it, a simulator of a nuclear bomb explosion at a location we have indicated has been created. This simulator, like others of its kind (e.g. Nukemap), is a very popular tool used to demonstrate the seriousness and danger associated with nuclear weapons.
In order to use the simulator described above, a bomb must be selected from those available on the site, and the location where the explosion is to take place must be indicated. For example, in the case of the use of the Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Sarmat SS-X-28 with a power of 500 kilotons and its explosion over Wall Street in New York, we can see the enormous destruction caused by the bomb. In the visualisation, four areas of damage caused by the blast are highlighted. Starting from the site of the explosion, these are:
- fireball area, where everything within its range would be incinerated within millionths of a second. People in this area would have zero chance of survival
- the area of greatest radiation, where, if the explosion survived, the level of radiation would be so high that death would probably occur within moments
- the area of the shock wave, the power of which would be capable of demolishing most buildings. Everyone in this area would probably die or be severely injured
- the area of extreme heat – this is the largest area and those within its range would suffer severe burns, including 3rd degree burns, which could be fatal.
The zones listed apply only to the first seconds and minutes after the explosion. The losses and damage caused by the spread of radiation are impossible to estimate, due to other factors, but it can undoubtedly be assumed that they would be enormous.
Link: https://www.svt.se/datajournalistik/nuclear-forces-worldwide/
